Example sentences of "could not return to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they say that even when they get a new manager , they could not return to the traditional pattern of advice workers advising and the manager doing the rest . |
| 2 | Other prisoners said that in Keraterm — a notorious PoW camp which they dubbed Auschwitz — prisoners were crippled by having the ligaments in a knee cut out and tied in a knot so they could not return to the fighting . |
| 3 | Therefore , he could not return to England , where his duties would force him into communion with those whose company he was forbidden to frequent : |
| 4 | Our materials were used , were not liked , and were soon discarded , and having once relinquished the courses we had developed , and involved our time and our energies elsewhere , we could not return to our earlier situation . |
| 5 | As a result of his lost schooling he could n't return to his previous class , and so was at least a year older than the other boys and girls in the class to which he was now assigned . |