Example sentences of "[adv] return from " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took ten minutes of brisk walking to get my blood flowing again , my consciousness slowly returning from a journey beyond my body . |
| 2 | But there is still enough talent available , including that of Menzel and Forman ( who is apparently returning from Hollywood to make another film at the Barrandov Studios ) to push the Czech cinema into the limelight again . |
| 3 | He almost literally returned from the dead , and his personal memoir , Facing Death , was the strongest thing he had written since the '50s . |
| 4 | ‘ Ai nt no VietCong ever called me a nigger , ’ was his simple , but penetrating , reason for not accepting the draft for which he was stripped of his world title and forced into inactivity for three years ( only to return from adversity and carry on boxing , often successfully , for world titles until aged 38 ) . |
| 5 | One has only to return from a trip to the Continent , for example , to see what a shabby and second-rate country Britain has become . |
| 6 | Aubrey and Cora-Beth had not long returned from a lengthy ride across the lush , undulating pastures and were still wearing jodhpurs and cool , open-necked shirts . |
| 7 | He learned from Mrs Thatcher the dangers of igniting the Tory divide over Europe and so returned from Maastricht , opt-outs in hand , proclaiming victory . |
| 8 | Seb started , as though his mind had suddenly returned from a very long distance . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Z Company were just returning from a fortnight 's well-earned leave while , as always , HQ Company were administering , paying , feeding , clothing and transporting the rest of the battalion . |
| 11 | Your thoughts , understandably , are with the young man who is shortly returning from America . |
| 12 | Mandeville and Santerre soon returned from the trees ; the latter had a crossbow in his hand , Bowyer 's corpse sprawled across the saddle bow . |
| 13 | For example , I just returned from an exhibition and wrote a 6,000 word report in one burst in my hotel room . |
| 14 | She added with more assurance that Beuno would also soon return from his walk to the waterfall , and then wondered aloud where the Molesworths were , because in a minute they would be late . |
| 15 | Donald was soon to return from his Test debut in Barbados but Reev 's condition was worrying . |
| 16 | The abbot 's guests had dispersed decorously , Rémy and Earl Robert in amicable company to the guesthall , where Bénezet was already returned from his evening in the town , in good time to attend his lord , as the earl 's two squires stood ready and waiting for theirs . |
| 17 | When your Mum finally returns from shopping , how many weeks ' pocket money does she have in her purse ? |
| 18 | She , lately returned from India , has known much sorrow and can instantly understand this love when she eventually suspects it . |
| 19 | A volunteer who had lately returned from China where she had seen another aspect of the refugee problem spent her first evening at Dovercourt simply observing the children . |
| 20 | I became a story-teller : painting my face , filching a gaudily embroidered robe and , not being versed in the French tongue , pretending I was a traveller lately returned from seeing the fables of India and Persia . |
| 21 | Sergeant Bramble had just returned from the Manor House upon his bicycle . |
| 22 | Then there was the question of the paternity of Mrs Clancy 's last child : Mr Clancy had only just returned from Egypt after a two-year posting , and — as Peony had pointed out — the child was only 14 months old . |
| 23 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 24 | The Israeli Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , of Likud , who had just returned from America , detailed the proposal of the US Secretary of State , James Baker , for three-way consultations on the composition of the Palestinian delegation . |
| 25 | Sir : I have just returned from five weeks in Zimbabwe , mostly at village level , and your leading article ( 6 October ) was right . |
| 26 | A sample : We 're coming in to land at Speke My legs are feeling very weak We 've just returned from Barcelona And now I 'm going for a sauna Toshack is of Scottish descent , and there is certainly a bit of McGonagall in there , though not the best bit . |
| 27 | While Jackson , who had just returned from filming a television clip , was mildly bemoaning the pressure it had placed on him to be ‘ incredibly entertaining for one minute ’ , his press officer was engaged in ordering him a beer from room service . |
| 28 | Tony had just returned from Iceland , his epic cycle tour , and I was back from Switzerland , buoyed up by time spent working at the Research Station on the Jungfraujoch . |
| 29 | A third has just returned from an overnight trip to Otterbur in the north-east of England Where it has been helping to move personnel and matériel around the ranges . |
| 30 | He and Diana had just returned from an exhausting tour of America , plugging Britain and British industry at every turn . |