Example sentences of "returned to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry took the homage of the barons and knights of La Marche and then returned to Angers to celebrate Christmas . |
| 2 | In the end , to his own surprise , be had quite successfully smoothed away her early-morning blues , and she 'd returned to sleep without having mentioned once the child she 'd lost . |
| 3 | Six rows forming a curve over 60 stitches is rather abrupt , the same number of rows would suit 120 stitches equally well , in which case you might work 60 stitches at the centre , with the 30 stitches at each end being returned to working position in a series of three sets of ten stitches . |
| 4 | Class 24 ‘ Experiment ’ has been returned to working order and repainted in her red and blue Research Department livery . |
| 5 | Blake , or Behar , returned to Holland at the start of the war in 1939 and played a minor part in the Dutch resistance . |
| 6 | And many motorists are still unaware that used sump oil from do-it-yourself oil changes can be recycled if returned to garages . |
| 7 | The results presented in " this chapter are based on 624 completed student questionnaires returned to IMS by the organisers of 55 Advanced Courses . |
| 8 | usable questionnaires were returned to IMS by 139 students , giving an 81 per cent response rate ; |
| 9 | When the survey was closed 141 questionnaires had been returned to IMS ( 82 per cent ) . |
| 10 | The film makers of 1938 slipped in , behind Shaw 's back , a sentimental ending in which Eliza improbably returned to Higgins and in our own time the play has become operetta fodder . |
| 11 | But the plague returned to France in 1361 , and the devastation it imposed , coupled with the laxity and incompetence of the English administration , weakened the English grip on its French territories . |
| 12 | When Edouard left Oxford , and returned to France to begin work on the administration of the de Chavigny companies and estates , he was appalled by what he found . |
| 13 | All the furniture , silver , paintings , and the private jewellery collection stored in Switzerland by his father were returned to France . |
| 14 | While the French police eventually traced the pieces to Osaka , lack of cooperation on the part of the Japanese authorities meant that they were not returned to France until June 1990 , and then only on the condition that they were returned to Japan by December of that year . |
| 15 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 16 | Then , just as d'Alembord was about to sell his commission and retire to one of his prospective father-in-law 's farms , Napoleon had returned to France . |
| 17 | One of these , the king 's younger son Louis Duke of Anjou , broke his word and returned to France , at which King John , showing a misplaced sense of honour , returned voluntarily to captivity in England and died at the Savoy in April 1364 . |
| 18 | After Edward III 's death he resigned his allegiance and his title , and returned to France , leaving his wife in England . |
| 19 | Since the reign of Henry VII , the French King had paid a substantial sum to England , which was increased to 150,000 francs per annum when Tournai was returned to France in 1519 . |
| 20 | To add to Henry 's troubles he was constantly being pestered by King Philip 's claim that now that the Young King was dead , his widow 's marriage portion — Gisors and the other castles of the Norman Vexin — should be returned to France . |
| 21 | Unquestionably , if either Richard or John had married her , it would have added plausibility to Philip 's claim that this vital territory was his sister 's marriage portion and , as such , might one day be returned to France . |
| 22 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 23 | The Bourequat brothers — three French citizens who had been imprisoned without charge for over 17 years — were pardoned by King Hassan II on Dec. 30 and returned to France on Jan. 3 . |
| 24 | Two days later the exiled leader of the extreme French settlers in Algeria , George Bidault , returned to France . |
| 25 | Terry Butler , the force 's co-leader , returned to Hampshire last week and was clear about the main ingredients for success : sharing and communicating a common vision ; collaboration before competition ; putting the customer first ; project management ; and project planning . |
| 26 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 27 | No wonder , then , if realism , which makes a claim to know past and present in unequivocal terms , returned to fiction and repossessed the field . |
| 28 | She taught briefly in schools in Liverpool , Oban , and Eastbourne , and for a longer period in Tunbridge Wells , but eventually returned to Inverness to keep house for her invalid father , whom she outlived by only two years . |
| 29 | Son Sann , leader of the Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) , returned to Phnom Penh on Dec. 15 . |
| 30 | There were widely held concerns over the funding of the mission , the dispatch of which had been delayed since November 1991 when the leaders of three of the four factions returned to Phnom Penh , the capital . |