Example sentences of "[adv] returned to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to escape payment Beamish fled the country and he only returned to Britain at irregular intervals from then on . |
| 2 | Titmuss , who only returned to the club this season after spending last year with the Telford Tigers , blitzed four goals inside 14 minutes of the opening period . |
| 3 | Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria . |
| 4 | It briefly attracted my attention , but I soon returned to the more intellectual business of marking exam scripts . |
| 5 | These changes proved to be only temporary , however , and life soon returned to normal . |
| 6 | In western Germany , however , private businessmen soon returned to their old positions . |
| 7 | After the initial flurry which prompted an internal memo warning staff not to fraternize with their neighbours , things soon returned to normal . |
| 8 | But there was nothing to see and they soon returned to their posts as the bus continued on its way . |
| 9 | After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south . |
| 10 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 11 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |
| 12 | He had never seen that happen before , and decided to get it checked when he finally returned to England . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry about no Berlin , ’ he said when he finally returned to the compartment . |
| 14 | In 1903 he finally returned to England . |
| 15 | When he finally returned to power , he was careful not to preside over the new Gaullist party , the UNR , in the same direct way that he had led the RPF . |
| 16 | All the same , she felt relieved when , just before five , they finally returned to the villa again and she was able to step out of the boat on to dry land . |
| 17 | He thus returned to the Soviet capital under very different circumstances from his last visit 22 years earlier , when he had been brought to Moscow and forced to give his approval to the invasion . |
| 18 | He thereupon returned to Moscow . |
| 19 | Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton . |
| 20 | He once returned to his old school and told staff : ‘ By the time I 've paid my analyst as much as my father paid you , he may have undone the damage you did . ’ |
| 21 | THE Norwich Union County Championship yesterday returned to Yorkshire after an eight-year gap , but Buckinghamshire will be wondering how they managed to lose 1–2 at St Albans . |
| 22 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 23 | But he always returned to the streets of Paris for inspiration , recording aspects of city life long since lost ; finding both joy and humour amidst scenes of poverty . |
| 24 | Sadly , I quickly returned to ‘ normal ’ but the sense of having potential access to all knowledge has remained . |
| 25 | It formally returned to Japan the sovereignty she had lost in her atomic-bombed defeat , and enabled her to recommence her ambitious ascent towards economic supremacy — a climb which , though frustrated and corrupted before , was this time and at last to culminate in her present astonishing success . |
| 26 | When I eventually returned to Vienna to make music , I was completely relaxed within myself . |
| 27 | They parted and Melinda married Philby briefly but this did not work either and she eventually returned to America . |
| 28 | Mr Reynolds eventually returned to the ward after 5½ hours . |
| 29 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 30 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |