Example sentences of "was return to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford was paired with actress Frances Cuka , who had spent much of her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and was returning to Britain after playing Mrs Lenin in its Broadway production of Travesties . |
| 2 | MISS Whiplash yesterday announced in a letter she was returning to Britain to stand as Corrective Party candidate in the Newbury by-election . |
| 3 | While the secret garden was returning to life , a man with high , crooked shoulders was wandering round the most beautiful places in Europe . |
| 4 | However , a report of July 29 said that the Armenian delegation was returning to Rome . |
| 5 | After all , she was returning to competition for the first time in five years . |
| 6 | ( 3 September 1778 ) Mozart made it quite clear to his father that the only reason he was returning to Salzburg was to be with him : |
| 7 | A popular legend tells of Arion , a lyric poet and musician , who was returning to Greece from Italy , laden with riches he had won at music competitions . |
| 8 | While Little Weirwold was returning to normality , events in the larger world continued to escalate . |
| 9 | In November 1989 , Coleman reluctantly agreed to resign his commission with the Boy Scouts of America , giving as his reason that he was returning to journalism with a job in Germany . |
| 10 | Only later did I wonder why it had been so important to tell Helmut I was returning to London . |
| 11 | I was returning to London . |
| 12 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 13 | ‘ I was returning to London anyway . |
| 14 | From there I found a ship which was returning to England . |
| 15 | When he held a farewell dinner for Christopher Isherwood , who was returning to America , in February 1952 , the guests included Minton , Vaughan , William Plomer , and John Morris , E. M. Forster joining the party after the meal had ended . |
| 16 | It looked out over a garden so long overgrown it was returning to jungle . |
| 17 | About one hour out Captain Musson radioed that he had an engine failure and was returning to Bathurst . |
| 18 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 19 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 20 | Wycliffe was returning to earth . |
| 21 | He would n't chase her after reading the letter she had left for him , politely thanking him for his hospitality and saying she was returning to Palma to complete her work before returning to England . |
| 22 | Since Jill was returning to San Francisco that seemed the obvious location for the new shop . |
| 23 | 1973 ) which emphasized the damaging effects of ‘ drift ’ in care , they came to constitute a formidable ‘ Permanence Movement ’ , campaigning for early decision-making over whether a child entering care was to return to parents or be placed in permanent substitute care . |
| 24 | John Smith , senior vice-president , operations said that while the company 's goal was to return to profitability as soon as possible , ‘ for the remainder of 1992 we remain cautious about both revenues and profits due to the uncertainties in both the industry and worldwide economies . ’ |
| 25 | The only cure for the ‘ silliness of his brain ’ was to return to reading , or to write an article . |
| 26 | Mr Sharif 's first move after his restoration was to return to Punjab on May 28th . |
| 27 | What she could do , Fabia realised by the time she was back at her hotel and in the lounge with a cup of coffee , was to return to England without delay . |
| 28 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 29 | He had little more than a week , as his intention was to return to Jalo by 10 January . |
| 30 | He fled to Spain while on bail awaiting the House of Lords ruling but was returned to England in 1989 and resumed his sentence . |