Example sentences of "were [adv] returned " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , at the first annual general meeting in February 1968 , Banks and Harris were not returned to the executive committee and although Sinclair replaced Harris in the chair , Peters was replaced as secretary by John McAnerney of the CSJ . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the Sharmas had contacted Mr Frank Mitchell of the Yorkshire Collie Rescue who phoned Brenda and told her that if the dogs were not returned to the Sharmas she would be banned from showing her dogs at London Collie Club shows . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The company owned and hired out barges but did not employ any of the union men , but their action meant that barges were not returned and so the company 's business came to a standstill . |
| 5 | Accordingly , A instructed B's watermen ( X ) not to man , service or tow barges belonging to C , an embargo which soon brought C 's business to a standstill as barges which were out on hire were not returned . |
| 6 | Books were not returned , articles went missing and I disapproved silently . |
| 7 | Some weeks later the plaintiffs sent the defendants an invoice for £3,783.50 , relying on a clause in their standard terms which provided that if the transparencies were not returned within 14 days , a holding charge and a fee of £5 per transparency per day would be charged . |
| 8 | The four died in July 1967 when their helicopter crashed during an approach to a landing zone in South Vietnam but their bodies were not returned until last July . |
| 9 | His unsuccessful serious plays had drawn on the Harold Pinter trick of having two different conversations continuing at the same time , and they were often returned with the comment that he had copied the playwright . |
| 10 | During the second month , two unsigned claims were processed and passed for payment , which were then returned to the claimants for signature . |
| 11 | The carriers were then returned to the western end of the shop and the cycle repeated . |
| 12 | The viscera were then returned to the cavity together with a substantial quantity of camphor , nitre and resin . |
| 13 | Since the rulers of neither country were inclined to full-scale war at this time , diplomatic moves were made to sort the matter out , and the captives were hastily returned . |
| 14 | By late September the government was attempting to negotiate with the rebels through local community leaders , and about 90 people taken hostage in the north were subsequently returned to N'Djamena . |
| 15 | We were hurt by the insulting tone of some of the written communications and puzzled as to why repeated telephone calls were never returned by the editors . |