Example sentences of "he return to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final .
2 After the emperor had received all sorts of oaths from Lothar , he let him return to Italy . "
3 As he was one of our Corporals , the Military Police had sought him out and made him return to barracks .
4 ‘ . Eliot 's thoughts on civilization would be developed in America , where his longing for the scenes of his youth would also be satisfied and would enable him to return to London to minister , witch-doctor-like , to his civilization , to purify the dialect of his adopted tribe .
5 Hardly had the King reached Balmoral on the Saturday morning when the Prime Minister sent a message that it might after all be necessary for him to return to London .
6 He began to tell me the difficulties of his life at home , and finally he told me that he had tried more than once to find a home with another brother or sister , but they had persuaded him to return to Cis and Elfed .
7 There are NO plans for him to return to Coney Hill .
8 By 1872 accrued capital enabled him to return to Sheffield with his wife and stepson , setting up as a picture framer .
9 Eventually his father persuaded him to return to Normandy but not before Philip of France had learned something of his brother-in-law 's troubles and half-formulated schemes .
10 Cromwell commissioned Stephen Vaughan , one of the English envoys in the Low Countries , to seek out Tyndale and persuade him to return to England , hoping perhaps to enlist his pen in support of the new policies .
11 But in addition , when they reached Lyons , the king 's messenger told Anselm that the king would not allow him to return to England unless he promised to observe the customs of the kingdom as they had been in the time of Rufus .
12 Gwynne retired to Hamburg , a sad and lonely figure , ‘ rusting for want of the conversation I was used to ’ , until Queen Anne 's death opened the way for him to return to England .
13 Then she found herself concluding that her earlier assumption had probably been correct and that there had indeed been someone in Australia , someone who had caused him to return to England in a hurry .
14 ‘ We had been worried because he was the only British boxer who was not sponsored and the lack of cash could have forced him to return to work .
15 His intention was to open a karate school , but bouts of severe home sickness led him to return to Okinawa .
16 MacBride toured the United States denouncing British policy in Ireland and Africa , and then lived in Paris until an amnesty allowed him to return to Dublin .
17 He gave Captain Lake a severe reprimand for his brutality and ordered him to return to Sombrero to see if Jeffrey were alive and , if so , to rescue him .
18 Hunger striker by the pub philosopher who wants Gorbachev to have him returned to Czechoslovakia .
19 The British government said it would try to get him returned to Britain .
20 In fact he returned to Amsterdam , but in 1681 he agreed to serve as leader of the English Sephardi community which had been so generous to him years before .
21 He returned to India , following a kidnap attempt , but because there was a fear that Muhammad Ali Pasha , governor of Egypt , might seize Aden , he stormed the town on 19 January 1839 .
22 In spite of this , he returned to India in 1927 to join the Christa Seva Sangha , an Anglican religious order founded in Poona in 1922 by Father Jack Winslow , inspired by the ideals of St Francis .
23 When he was seventeen he returned to China for several months .
24 Meanwhile he returned to headquarters and the disagreeable task of informing Davout of the outcome .
25 He was a passionate tourer , always in motion , descending on his Residents with floods of instructions which resumed their unceasing flow as soon as he returned to headquarters ; and long before Northern Nigeria was brought under effective British occupation , he was composing his Political Memoranda , which in addition to his reflections on the subject of Indirect Rule contained instructions to his officers of a comprehensiveness simply beyond satire .
26 He returned to North America , first lecturing at Oakland University in Rochester Michigan and then from 1980 to 1983 at the University of Alberta in Canada .
27 After two years national service he returned to Newark for a short period before moving to Peterborough in 1952 .
28 And as recently as 1987 , he returned to South Africa with an Aussie rebel side .
29 He was courted by a number of them when he returned to South Africa this Christmas , his first visit home since he was exiled along with his parents as a youngster .
30 After a spell at Leicester City , he returned to Wigan in 1989 as chief executive and took over team affairs when Ray Matthias was sacked .
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