Example sentences of "was returning 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 . |