Example sentences of "have [adv] returned [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
| 2 | A delegation of lawyers from the British Romanian Law Association has just returned from a successful trip to Romania , having given seminars in two Romanian cities and met with representatives of the Romanian Bar Association . |
| 3 | That should guarantee Annadale maximum points in the 1,500 metres , as Lough , who has just returned from a training stint with the GB squad in New Mexico , clocked 3.40.2 … a personal best … at Loughborough on Wednesday night . |
| 4 | Walker , who has just returned from a two-week fact finding mission , is now preparing a detailed report for the Latvian authorities . |
| 5 | TEENAGE striker Stephen Perkins has just returned from a week 's trial at Stoke City and the Potters have expressed great interest . |
| 6 | Professor Jack Spence of Leicester university has just returned from a fact-finding tour of South Africa . |
| 7 | He has gone missing on previous occasions but he has always returned within a short time . |
| 8 | In the wake of the riots , while denouncing all sorts of ‘ sentiment , wishful-thinking and humbug ’ , The Daily Mail also saw fit to editorialise on the black community who , it was said , ‘ must bear no small responsibility for the fear of the mob that has now returned after a century or more to haunt the cities of this land ’ . |
| 9 | She has recently returned from a journey in Romania to see the conditions of at least 1,000 children under the age of one , who had contracted AIDS through injections with dirty needles or contaminated blood . |
| 10 | Peter Dimond , a Director of the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum has recently returned from a trip to the USSR and reports he has seen five Hurricanes and at least one P-40 . |
| 11 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 12 | Charles Walker has recently returned from a world trip , during which he has been taking photographs in preparation for his next book . |
| 13 | A GROUP of British students has recently returned from a trip to South America , where they have been researching into the flora and fauna of the Colombian Amazon basin . |
| 14 | It lasted only a year ( although there was no divorce until 1957 ) and some time after that Peter Lawford made the mistake of meeting Ava , who 'd just returned from a trip overseas , for a drink in a Hollywood restaurant . |
| 15 | I got the news of the fall of Shatila in London , having just returned from a fund-raising trip in the Gulf countries . |
| 16 | I write this having just returned from a meeting in Frankfurt of the Council of the Federation of European Credit Management Associations ( FECMA ) . |
| 17 | Having recently returned from a ‘ fact-finding mission ’ organised by the ‘ Gulf Centre for Strategic Studies ’ , Mr Marlow attacks in the Gulf Report the ‘ vociferous and unrepresentative minority that effects ( sic ) to believe that our way of life and system of government is the measure by which all other countries should be measured . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I had only returned from a holiday in Dublin and had n't the price of the airline ticket , so I had to borrow from my mum , ’ said Deirdre , who is the mother of a five-year-old daughter , Emma . |
| 19 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 20 | They admitted they were told on Saturday that Timothy had not returned from a 250-mile trip from Tilbury in Essex — but they only found the lorry on Monday morning . |
| 21 | Apart from the sore cracks between most of his toes , the skin was heavily calloused and his heels were covered in blisters ( he had just returned from a particularly arduous walk ) . |
| 22 | I had just returned from a training stint in Lanzarote . |
| 23 | He had just returned from a fresh session with the PM at Downing Street . |
| 24 | He had just returned from a visit in 1937 to the Government fighting front in Spain . |
| 25 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 26 | Poor had just returned from a week in bed with flu when she was picked to test the trapeze . |
| 27 | He looked as though he had just returned from a Chas'n Dave concert or tied up Hercules the horse in the Steptoe and Son barn . |
| 28 | He had just returned after a 3-day affair with another woman which had brought on the crisis . |
| 29 | In 1929 , he had again returned to a familiar theme , stressing that , while the establishment of a ‘ National Preservation ’ body was worthwhile , it was especially important that its attention be directed not merely to the countryside . |
| 30 | Audrey , 63 , widely known for roles in Roman Holiday and Breakfast At Tiffany 's , had recently returned from a tour of famine-hit Somalia , representing UN children 's fund UNICEF . |