Example sentences of "returned to england " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concerned Lord Alfred Douglas who was on this occasion accompanied by Gide ( but not Wilde , who had returned to England ) and a boy called Ali with whom , according to Gide , Douglas was in love . |
| 2 | ‘ I am a teacher of English at a school in Cologne and I gave up my job at the end of March and returned to England . ’ |
| 3 | I had not long returned to England after a visit to my old mission of Cameroon on the West coast of Africa . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Azariah had made good in the West Indies , and his grandson , John Frederick , returned to England and Bettiscombe towards the middle of the eighteenth century and became MP for Bridport . |
| 5 | returned to England . |
| 6 | He fled to Spain while on bail awaiting the House of Lords ruling but was returned to England in 1989 and resumed his sentence . |
| 7 | He fled to Spain while on bail awaiting the House of Lords ruling , but was returned to England in 1989 and resumed his sentence . |
| 8 | The secretary of the planning committee that examined the project was an MI6 officer called George Blake who had recently returned to England after a long spell of captivity in Korea . |
| 9 | Berwick was attacked by the Scots in 1312 , and regained in 1318 ; besieged by Edward II in 1319 ; taken by the English in 1333 ; burned by James Douglas in 1405 ; ceded to Scotland in 1461 and returned to England in 1482 — where it remains , wrongly in my opinion , to this day . |
| 10 | In return he was promised his hereditary possessions of Luneburg and Brunswick , but ordered to leave Germany for three years , and so returned to England . |
| 11 | Gallacher was on the verge of being deported and the team returned to England to face a full enquiry at the English FA Headquarters in Lancaster Gate . |
| 12 | This radical change in lifestyle was liberating artistically. , especially as the children grew older and returned to England . |
| 13 | After her mother 's untimely death through cancer , Doreen 's father returned to England where he put the eight-year-old in the care of an au pair and hardly ever saw her , except to exert some strong-handed discipline when Doreen had done something to displease either the au pair or himself . |
| 14 | Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester . |
| 15 | Ironically , my father , mother , younger brother and I had recently returned to England from Singapore , at the end of a four-year posting . |
| 16 | Clive had returned to England with his private profits from his trading and military activities , though he spent his money so fast ( largely on an unsuccessful attempt to get into Parliament ) that he was soon back in India , serving on what was becoming recognizable as the military side of the Company 's concerns . |
| 17 | After the prince returned to England it must have seemed increasingly unlikely that he would live to inherit the throne , and the prospect of Richard 's succession as a child served only to increase uncertainty . |
| 18 | He arrived in Gascony in September 1273 , for example , before he had even returned to England as king , to deal with the actions of Gaston VII , vicomte of Béarn , against his authority as duke of Aquitaine . |
| 19 | I have just returned to England after thirteen years of gastronomic bliss in the South of France . |
| 20 | Now , after living in a large house at Cape Cod on the east coast of America for 35 years , she has returned to England and settled in a small village in Berkshire . |
| 21 | By our mid-twenties , Lorne and I had returned to England penniless but hopeful , with our BA degrees from Mexico in Business and Philosophy . |
| 22 | After being rescued , Troy had decided to stay on the ship and work as a sailor , but he was not happy with this travelling life , and finally returned to England . |
| 23 | Moreover , at some point — probably on Ecgfrith 's death — Eadberht Praen , recently an exile at the court of Charlemagne , returned to England and established himself as king in Kent ( ASC A , s.a. 794 ) , his grip on the kingdom underlined by the minting of his own coins at Canterbury . |
| 24 | After the Beagle returned to England , the ornithologist John Gould confirmed that there were several different species of finches and mocking-birds on the islands . |
| 25 | Olive Saunderson and Norman Field met and fell in love in predictably romantic circumstances when the Fields and the Saundersons were guests on board Lord Vestey 's yacht on a cruise to Norway in 1909 They were married the same year in Dublin and returned to England to set up home . |
| 26 | Serving as director of the Survey from May 1896 to November 1897 , he retired in 1904 , partly because of ill health ; he suffered from sprue , and returned to England . |
| 27 | His ashes were returned to England and buried in the churchyard in West Meon , Hampshire . |
| 28 | On 5 September 1861 Rigby left Zanzibar on grounds of ill health and returned to England . |
| 29 | He had two foreign looms copied , and returned to England , setting up business in Taunton , where in 1589 he experimented with a multicoloured Spanish cloth , called medley or ‘ Webb 's ’ cloth . |
| 30 | Sadleir continued to serve in India , took part in the Burma war , and returned to England in 1828 . |