I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a return ticketBritish English, a round-trip ticket American English (= a ticket to a place and back)
▪ How much is a round trip ticket to Boston?
a return visit (=when you visit a place again, or when someone you visited visits you)
▪ George was already planning a return visit.
be returned to Parliament (=be elected)
▪ Creevey was returned to Parliament as MP for Appleby.
call for a return to sth
▪ The Prime Minister called for a return to traditional Labour values.
day return
file...tax returns
▪ Today is the deadline for Americans to file their tax returns.
go back to/return to your seat
▪ The audience clapped as he returned to his seat.
rate of return
return a book (=to a library)
▪ Please return all your books before the end of term.
return a favour (=do something for someone because they have done something for you)
▪ He helped me in the past and now he wanted me to return the favour.
return address
return from exile
▪ Martinez returned from exile to the islands in May 1990 and was later elected President.
return match
return sb's depositformal (= give it back to them)
▪ Your deposit will be returned to you when you leave the flat.
return sb’s call (=call someone after they have tried to call you)
▪ I left a message for her but she didn’t return my call.
return sb’s love (=love someone who loves you)
▪ Estella does not return Pip’s love.
return sb’s smile (=smile back at someone)
▪ I smiled at him, but he didn’t return my smile.
return sb’s stare (=stare back at them)
▪ I returned his stare and he looked away.
return sth to the library/take sth back to the library
▪ Have you taken those books back to the library?
return to consciousness
▪ When I returned to consciousness, my head was throbbing with pain.
return to normality
▪ We’re hoping for a return to normality as soon as possible.
return to sender
▪ a package marked ‘return to sender’
return to work/go back to work
▪ His doctor agreed he was fit enough to return to work.
return to/come back into the fold
▪ The Church will welcome him back into the fold.
return visit
return/be returned to power (=start being in control again, usually after an election)
▪ The party was returned to power with a reduced majority.
return/be returned to power (=start being in control again, usually after an election)
▪ The party was returned to power with a reduced majority.
return/come back etc empty-handed
▪ I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed.
returned an open verdict
▪ The jury returned an open verdict.
returned to normal
▪ Slowly her heartbeat returned to normal.
return/give/announce/deliver a verdict (=officially say what a verdict is)
▪ The inquest jury returned a verdict of 'unlawful killing'.
returning officer
sb’s return to power
▪ Churchill’s return to power had an immediate effect upon Anglo-American relations.
tax return
the jury returns a verdict (=gives its decision to the court)
▪ The jury returned a guilty verdict.
the (rate of) return on an investment (=profit from an investment)
▪ We expect a high return on our investment.
the return journey (=the journey back from a place)
▪ The return journey was uneventful.
the return trip (=the journey back to a place)
▪ A day or two later she began her return trip to Chicago.
yield...return
▪ These investments should yield a reasonable return.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
home
▪ Ken bought her a bottle of gin to celebrate her return home.
▪ She'd better make the most of the occasion and put her views on marriage more forcibly once she returned home.
▪ Since the children know they need their parents desperately, they attempt to return home after being deserted.
▪ After Jeffery's death in November 1771, Ainslie returned home and shortly thereafter made a map of Jedburgh and its environs.
▪ Joe could hardly believe his luck to have returned home in such good shape.
▪ After just six weeks she returned home and refused to go back.
▪ He returned home and began reading about altered states and spiritual experiences.
never
▪ He can probably never return to his family in Novi Sad, at least as long as the Milosevic regime endures.
▪ He may get caught by predators, like spiders, and never return.
▪ But it's possible the Wessex may never return to full service.
▪ We never returned to the churchyard after the fire.
▪ It was clear he would never return there.
▪ When he was 17 years old, he was expelled from school for revolutionary activities and never returned to the class-room.
▪ Most urban visitors will flee the scene and never return.
▪ It was Mr Oliver Wendell Holmes who said that a mind stretched to a new idea never returns to its original shape.
■ NOUN
call
▪ Before my 11.00am appointment I return two phone calls.
▪ Saatchi executives did not return calls seeking comment.
▪ Motorola did not return calls by press time.
▪ Mel returned his call on Monday morning.
▪ The Democratic Party machine did not return his calls, the media ignored him, but he kept driving.
▪ Microsoft officials did not return calls yesterday.
office
▪ Most staff return to the area office in mid-afternoon with samples to be sent off to the laboratory.
▪ What better proof of its virtue than that it kept returning them to office?
▪ Slip re-attendance to be returned to the Office as soon as possible - Thank you. 5.
▪ In 1953, after Kennelly was returned to office and Stevenson had his unfortunate encounter with Eisenhower, Gill resigned as chairman.
▪ Only when he had returned to his own office did it occur to him to flick through his passport's pages.
▪ After making an additional copy, she returned to her office and started to highlight her key presentation points.
▪ The Conservative party was returned to office in 1951 and was to remain there until 1964.
trip
▪ I waited, but Joy never returned from that trip.
▪ When the students return from the field trip, Emily is dismayed when Gina does not get off the minibus.
▪ I had Mrs Abadie and Mrs Jackson, whose husbands had not returned from inspection trips.
▪ She would just have to find some way of avoiding physical contact until Dana returned from her trip to Hadrian's Wall.
▪ It was as if he was doing a parody of a president returning from an overseas trip.
▪ Morris returned from that trip fired with a new enthusiasm for captaincy.
▪ Jody returns from the road trip to find a copy of another fax Pete has sent to Alan.
verdict
▪ The jury at Nottingham Crown Court returned its final verdicts yesterday.
▪ But, again, he failed to sway the jury, which returned a first-degree murder verdict.
▪ Taking into account the thundering magnificence of your new single, the jury must grudgingly return a verdict of not guilty.
▪ The mostly white jury deliberated for three days before returning its verdicts.
▪ One woman juror winked at Liberace as she returned for the verdict.
▪ I could see it in their faces when they returned their verdict.
▪ Juries are becoming more likely to return guilty verdicts in tough-to-prove cases - and judges more likely to slap on longer sentences.
▪ On May 17, 1980, the jury returned a verdict acquitting the officers on all charges.
visit
▪ This time it was two brothers from Ohio returning from a visit to Disney World.
▪ Whenever a patient returned for a clinic visit, a urine sample was collected and was analyzed for ethanol.
▪ Students from Aqui-Terme will be returning the visit.
▪ Anne evidently hadn't returned from her monthly visit to her parents' home in Oxfordshire.
▪ And neither did Tutilo return from his visit to the lady of Longner.
▪ Mr. Bingley must also return their visit by visiting the Bennets, if he is not to be rude.
▪ Gail had returned from her visit yesterday almost in tears, saying that now Jane was refusing to be visited.
▪ David Tindle had recently returned from a visit to Paris where he had seen this painting for the first time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(on) sale or return
▪ All are on full sale on January 23-Knave sale or return from Blackhorse.
▪ All available goods may be taken on a sale or return basis. 9.
▪ Booksellers normally order books on a sale or return basis.
▪ This may be on a sale or return agreement without asking for payment.
▪ What is the position, though, where the buyer resells the goods on sale or return terms?
many happy returns
▪ And, no doubt about it, very many happy returns, sir.
▪ Charlotte will be wished many happy returns by family and other visitors to a nursing home in Redcar, Cleveland.
▪ Next up we would like to wish birthday girl Fiona many happy returns.
▪ They went for more, but Nicky Hammond in the Town goal made sure they didn't have too many happy returns.
return the compliment
▪ As she pulled on a tan leather blouson, she eyed me warily, and I returned the compliment.
▪ Characteristically, Scargill is not returning the compliment and is not planning to co-operate with the alliance.
▪ Cheltenham's Tory faithful welcomed the Lady and she returned the compliment.
▪ Hardin returned the compliment with a blaster specifically borrowed for the occasion.
▪ I have ventured into the use of your name several times but you have not returned the compliment.
▪ If they failed to understand the settled peasants, the latter returned the compliment.
▪ One year later, the Eastbourne Road school is returning the compliment.
▪ What else to do but return the compliment?
rise/come back/return from the dead
▪ A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.
▪ Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.
▪ The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.
▪ When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.
safe journey/arrival/return etc
▪ And he adds his personal guarantee of company and protection, with the assurance of eventual safe return.
▪ Birdland is now offering a reward for the safe return of the birds and the conviction of the thieves.
▪ He wishes you to have not merely a safe journey, but an aesthetically pleasing one.
▪ Meanwhile, the Spartan observers were politely detained, pending the ambassadors' safe return.
▪ The Everqueen herself gifted him with a heart-shaped broach which she had woven with enchantments for his safe return.
▪ Travellers would offer them bread and milk to be sure of a safe journey.
▪ Worse, really, because with ageing there's not the least possibility of a safe return.
the point of no return
▪ The dam project has reached the point of no return.
▪ By Joshua's time they had reached the point of no return.
▪ Foo was beyond the point of no return.
▪ In a few more moments this love scene would have reached the point of no return.
▪ Relationships with the union beyond the point of no return?
▪ Sailmaking We've reached the point of no return!
▪ Suddenly it passed the point of no return and plunged downwards.
▪ The fire is the point of no return for the Gaucis.
▪ The principal message conveyed by the leadership was that the Three Gorges project had reached the point of no return.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Return the pan to the heat and simmer for a further 5-10 minutes.
▪ Alastair returned from the office late that night.
▪ As the soldiers returned home, their wives had to readjust to living with them again.
▪ He had to return to India to look after his mother.
▪ I'm going to return these shoes - they're a little tight.
▪ I've got to go by Blockbuster and return those tapes.
▪ I left early, but promised to return the next day.
▪ If the pain returns, take two of the tablets every four hours.
▪ If there is a problem with the computer, you can return it to the store.
▪ It was a bright, hot day when she returned.
▪ Johnson carefully returned the document to its hiding place.
▪ Only 96 Conservative MPs were returned at the last election.
▪ Penny has still not returned the office keys.
▪ Sign and keep the top sheet, and return the blue sheet to the office.
▪ Since the end of the war, many of the paintings have been found and returned to their rightful owners.
▪ Their investment list returned a profit of 34% last year.
▪ You must return all your library books before the end of the year.
▪ Your passport will be returned to you when you check out of your hotel.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After a week it was to be returned to its owner.
▪ After loading up he will return to Save.
▪ And if you don't like your purchase, you can return it for a refund.
▪ He returned in the early 1970s and went into business.
▪ I tell her how excited I am to return to Oki for Obon.
▪ Juries represent the racial attitudes of the communities from which they came and to which they will return.
▪ Since moving out of the unprofitable world of defence, Trend has returned to profits of £900,000.
▪ Twenty minutes later he returned, shaking his head in a universal gesture.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
▪ That gives an annual return of eight percent - more than from most building societies.
▪ Buying in that year and sticking with it through Dec. 30 would have meant a 16. 1 percent annual return.
▪ In combination, that would result in an annual tax free return of more than 30 percent.
▪ P 500, their compound annual return over the same period would have been 10. 06 percent.
▪ His next plan for increasing the annual return of ground covered, was to augment the work force as much as possible.
▪ That compares to an 8. 6 percent average annual return for all bond funds during the period.
▪ Each company is responsible for its annual return.
▪ The annual return averages 9 to 14 percent.
average
▪ And the average rate of return for this group was still 6%.
▪ Annualized average rate of return after expenses for the past 30 days; not a forecast of future returns.
▪ Some managers have stirred into the mixture riskier bonds that offer a higher than average return.
▪ That compares to an 8. 6 percent average annual return for all bond funds during the period.
▪ While the average return may be acceptable, the element of variability could imply a risk of financial loss that is unacceptable.
▪ If the spot yield is the average return, then the forward rate can be interpreted as the marginal return.
▪ During the same period, one-year Treasury bills produced an average annual return of 7. 5 percent.
expected
▪ This requires that the expected return from the short position exceeds the riskless rate.
▪ The greater the risk of non-payment, the greater will be the expected return for discounting.
▪ Suppose that the expected rate of return is written as.
▪ The horizontal axis is now calibrated in units of beta rather than the standard deviation of expected returns.
▪ However, expected returns can not be observed.
▪ Over the previous 12 months the portfolio underperformed its expected rate of return by just over 2.5 percent.
▪ This gives a sterling value, at this rate of £36,363.64 and is of course the expected return.
▪ But, largely for that very reason, assets do vary in both their expected returns and their riskiness.
good
▪ No doubt they have been promised a good party in return.
▪ Several investment advisers, however, cautioned that many people need a better return than the new securities are likely to offer.
▪ Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment.
▪ But workers also insist on getting a good return on their own retirement savings.
▪ If he had married Iskandara for her sheep, he had given good measure in return.
▪ In combination with interest payments, bond investors pocketed the third best annual total return since Calvin Coolidge was president.
▪ The savings industry continues to demonstrate very good returns for those saving for their retirement.
▪ It also means that investors might be tempted to look for better returns in the stock market.
happy
▪ And, no doubt about it, very many happy returns, sir.
▪ He smiled, happy with his return.
▪ Next up we would like to wish birthday girl Fiona many happy returns.
▪ They went for more, but Nicky Hammond in the Town goal made sure they didn't have too many happy returns.
▪ Charlotte will be wished many happy returns by family and other visitors to a nursing home in Redcar, Cleveland.
▪ And happy returns ... Lady Thatcher becomes Chancellor of the University she opened.
high
▪ This encourages them to chase higher returns by lending to less creditworthy borrowers.
▪ Bonds issued by riskier firms will pay a higher return than bonds issued by safe, stable firms.
▪ Mr Mason believes this sort of devolution will bring higher returns.
▪ In the late seventies, savings and loans began to lose depositors to money market funds, which offered higher returns.
▪ This service is a high return investment for lump sums of over £10,000.
▪ Since gilts pay a fixed annual rate of interest, you would be locking in a higher return before the rate cut.
▪ That was because the funds invested in derivatives that gave them a higher return, but with much greater risk.
safe
▪ Worse, really, because with ageing there's not the least possibility of a safe return.
▪ And he adds his personal guarantee of company and protection, with the assurance of eventual safe return.
▪ Birdland is now offering a reward for the safe return of the birds and the conviction of the thieves.
▪ The Everqueen herself gifted him with a heart-shaped broach which she had woven with enchantments for his safe return.
▪ Meanwhile, the Spartan observers were politely detained, pending the ambassadors' safe return.
▪ Already some manufacturers are offering incentives for safe return of batteries, so that they can recycle or dispose of them safely.
▪ The safe return of the Oldenburgs.
total
▪ The best results were for the Ford Motor and the Dana corporations which predicted 45 percent of the total variance of returns.
▪ Moreover, that 4. 69 percent total return means the average bond fund owner actually lost principal value in 1996.
▪ The net result is that the total energy return is less than the input.
▪ Domesticstock funds posted one of their strongest years on record, with a total return of 31. 11 % in 1995.
▪ When the yen rises, dollar-based investors see their total return increase.
▪ An accumulation, or total return, index of the two markets is calculated after the close of each trading day.
▪ Safilo SpA stock racked up a 74 percent total return as the manufacturer of eyeglass frames rebounded from years of declining profits.
■ NOUN
home
▪ I must not forget the back-up staff and the community staff who visited me so promptly after my return home.
▪ The warriors, in those days, he says, preferred to die rather than return home without dipping their spears in blood.
▪ The evening performance - a Mozart Symphony - didn't start until seven and it would mean a late return home.
▪ A trip chain is a sequence of trips beginning when a resident leaves home, and ending when they next return home.
▪ We will miss him in the Wear Valley area and wish him well on his return home.
▪ It is known that none of the three thousand or so of letters were received by the children until their return home.
▪ But anything I might do in that way would have to await my return home.
tax
▪ Reclaiming this tax involves filling in a tax return, including details of your salary received and the tax deducted.
▪ The ones that working... the only way they can do anything is to wait on their income tax return.
▪ If your child has already paid tax, he or she must complete a tax return to receive a rebate.
▪ Even the math behind a simple tax return carries assumptions that are open to challenge.
▪ These warranties would include general warranties as to: Compliance in making tax returns.
▪ One beauty of a flat tax supposedly is that tax returns would be simple.
▪ After all, few are burdened with having to complete annual income tax returns.
▪ And then they fail to make that decision until the tax return is prepared, if then.
trip
▪ Today's passengers have to make do with a 10-mile return trip to Twyford.
▪ It was on their return trip north that things went wrong.
▪ On the return trip the bus will travel via the Lake District.
▪ The final return trip was a substantial hike, involving a climb of nearly 6,500' in a day.
▪ A 12,000 mile return trip to the States, plus another 1,500 miles or road travel dictated a hectic computing schedule.
▪ Margaret is delighted to be making this return trip on what she describes as a warm and friendly course.
▪ And the same thing happened on the return trip West.
■ VERB
demand
▪ Soldier's parents demand the return of his body.
▪ A Prussian soldier spotted them and demanded the return of their booty.
▪ Clothiers in Baintree and Barking followed suit and demanded the return of thrums from their weavers.
▪ By the 1990s, large and institutional investors had abandoned the search for security and demanded instead fat returns on investments.
▪ Interestingly, it is the right that now demands the return of narrative.
▪ A largely black protest march was held here recently to demand the return of safe streets.
▪ This it did by demanding a return to the family and Victorian values.
▪ At the same time, investors are demanding a higher return to account for the added risk that patients may live longer.
diminish
▪ They have created new forms of entertainment rather than providing variations on old themes that inevitably have diminishing returns over time.
▪ Could advertising go the way of modern art, with the shock factor leading to diminishing returns?
▪ One was the idea of diminishing returns, applied in this case to income or wealth.
▪ A law of diminishing returns applies to seed but not to pollen.
▪ For all of us there is also the law of diminishing returns that goes to work with each successive bite.
▪ A weakening of the yen against the dollar diminishes returns to investors who change their proceeds into stronger currencies.
▪ Property can be increased without limit; the efforts to safeguard it are subject to sharply diminishing returns.
earn
▪ The decisions are commercial: what will earn the best return on the investment?
▪ On the other hand, cash reserves do not earn any return for the bank.
▪ Do/can we earn an adequate return for the risk involved? and is there a clearly identified ability to repay?
▪ Using your Isa allowance: You can put up to £7,000 in an ordinary Isa to earn tax-free returns.
▪ Over liquid banks will have money balances earning no return, so that profit opportunities are being lost.
▪ And for three years, it earned its return, every month.
▪ Indeed he now questioned if the United States itself had earned an adequate return from its investment in the special relationship.
▪ In the meantime, you are looking to earn a high return.
expect
▪ Now they expect something in return.
▪ But if we expect effort in return for what we give, we usually get that.
▪ We expect a return on our investment.
▪ Salomon Brothers expects equity returns between 10 % and 15 % for the year.
▪ As with the Persian kings, military service was expected in return.
▪ Mr Moszkowski expects those returns to hold steady for the fourth and first quarters.
▪ The water companies have responsibilities to their shareholders, who will expect a return on their investment.
▪ Yet the effort, far more costly than anything ever attempted by any government, has not produced the expected returns.
file
▪ But not every company may file a consolidated return.
▪ Tax rebels offer numerous arguments to explain their refusal to file 1040 returns or pay taxes.
▪ The U. S. Treasury loses an estimated $ 130 billion each year because of citizens who underpay or file no return.
▪ On the other hand, some accountants say they will bill clients if legal changes force them to file an amended return.
▪ Under the Forbes plan, filing a tax return might require only two calculations.
▪ You do not owe taxes charged against your spouse unless you and your spouse filed a joint return.
▪ Tax software also can make it easier for taxpayers to file their returns electronically.
offer
▪ Part of the skill of successful development is in identifying and satisfying gaps in the market which offer higher than usual returns.
▪ In the late seventies, savings and loans began to lose depositors to money market funds, which offered higher returns.
▪ Lenders want low-risk outlets for their money, which also offer attractive returns.
▪ Tula residents grabbed at cash offered in return for forms they had filled in.
▪ However, Halifax is the first of the high street banks to offer generous returns on current accounts.
▪ Occasionally, the only possible controls are widely scattered or are unlikely to cooperate with a program that offers nothing in return.
▪ Fund managers aim to mix a cocktail of bonds that offer a return higher than the interest on a building society deposit.
▪ Poole offered in return the benevolent strength and practicality which Coleridge was soon to value so greatly.
produce
▪ Further increases in winding current then produce a diminishing return in terms of improved flux level.
▪ During the same period, one-year Treasury bills produced an average annual return of 7. 5 percent.
▪ Anhydrous caustic soda, hydrogen gas and phosgene, all well established product areas, are being developed to produce maximum returns.
▪ Yet there still are many Fidelity shareholders who came aboard years ago specifically because Fidelity produced above-average returns.
▪ Less concentrated manures also produced impressive returns.
▪ Yet the effort, far more costly than anything ever attempted by any government, has not produced the expected returns.
▪ The policy of artistic worthiness which had been pursued since Tubular Bells, three years before, had produced progressively diminishing returns.
▪ That would produce returns for the 30-year bond of about negative 7 %.
provide
▪ This limits their international ventures to those that can provide returns in the shorter term.
▪ If you can lock the money away, the stock market provides the greatest returns over the long term.
▪ Trade deficits mean we Let more merchandise from the rest of the world that, we provide in return.
▪ The accounts are largely designed to provide information about the returns achieved on that risk investment.
▪ For equity funds, the final column provides 52-week returns based on market prices plus dividends.
▪ They collapse and can die within hours-but a single injection of magnesium salts provides an immediate return to full health.
▪ This, we contended, could provide a financial return comparable to that from a new building.
receive
▪ The United States was receiving a good return on its investment.
▪ Janie smiled at them and received their smiles in return.
▪ Amadeus All guests staying 5 nights or more receive return rail tickets to Padua with lunch included.
▪ She is a 61-year-old housewife and does not receive a tax return.
▪ Whilst certainly they may receive something in return, there does not seem to be a pressure to balance out the gifts.
▪ I look forward to receiving a reply by return of post.
▪ The worker, in contrast, has only his labour to sell and receives only wages in return.
▪ Those financing the advertising of parties expect to receive a return on their outlay.
yield
▪ A car is highly illiquid, but yields a high return to the owner.
▪ Mailed questionnaires are inexpensive but yield a low return in terms of mail-back from respondents.
▪ Sport can possess the characteristic of a capital good, one that yields a return as part of a market production process.
▪ Y may be sold short and the proceeds invested in X yielding a riskless return for no investment.
▪ Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction, that can only yield diminishing returns.
▪ Partly for that reason, too many projects yield poor returns.
▪ The government and housing divisions were said to have yielded the lowest returns and action is promised to boost their performance.
▪ Casting wider for other presidential candidates does not yield a healthy return.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(on) sale or return
▪ All are on full sale on January 23-Knave sale or return from Blackhorse.
▪ All available goods may be taken on a sale or return basis. 9.
▪ Booksellers normally order books on a sale or return basis.
▪ This may be on a sale or return agreement without asking for payment.
▪ What is the position, though, where the buyer resells the goods on sale or return terms?
diminishing returns
▪ Technologies that helped rescue developing countries from famine in the 1970s have reached the point of diminishing returns.
▪ A law of diminishing returns applies to seed but not to pollen.
▪ But it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out the diminishing returns involved in planning programmes around such disposable performers.
▪ For all of us there is also the law of diminishing returns that goes to work with each successive bite.
▪ It is a process of diminishing returns, as Arthur Holmes showed mathematically nearly 30 years ago.
▪ One was the idea of diminishing returns, applied in this case to income or wealth.
▪ The problem with chocolates is that they operate on a loss curve of massively diminishing returns.
▪ They have created new forms of entertainment rather than providing variations on old themes that inevitably have diminishing returns over time.
many happy returns
▪ And, no doubt about it, very many happy returns, sir.
▪ Charlotte will be wished many happy returns by family and other visitors to a nursing home in Redcar, Cleveland.
▪ Next up we would like to wish birthday girl Fiona many happy returns.
▪ They went for more, but Nicky Hammond in the Town goal made sure they didn't have too many happy returns.
rise/come back/return from the dead
▪ A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.
▪ Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.
▪ The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.
▪ When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.
safe journey/arrival/return etc
▪ And he adds his personal guarantee of company and protection, with the assurance of eventual safe return.
▪ Birdland is now offering a reward for the safe return of the birds and the conviction of the thieves.
▪ He wishes you to have not merely a safe journey, but an aesthetically pleasing one.
▪ Meanwhile, the Spartan observers were politely detained, pending the ambassadors' safe return.
▪ The Everqueen herself gifted him with a heart-shaped broach which she had woven with enchantments for his safe return.
▪ Travellers would offer them bread and milk to be sure of a safe journey.
▪ Worse, really, because with ageing there's not the least possibility of a safe return.
the point of no return
▪ The dam project has reached the point of no return.
▪ By Joshua's time they had reached the point of no return.
▪ Foo was beyond the point of no return.
▪ In a few more moments this love scene would have reached the point of no return.
▪ Relationships with the union beyond the point of no return?
▪ Sailmaking We've reached the point of no return!
▪ Suddenly it passed the point of no return and plunged downwards.
▪ The fire is the point of no return for the Gaucis.
▪ The principal message conveyed by the leadership was that the Three Gorges project had reached the point of no return.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Both sides are demanding the return of territory lost in the war.
▪ Most people get fairly low returns from their personal investments.
▪ She begged for the return of her kidnapped baby.
▪ The return on the initial investment was huge.
▪ The company offers the hope of big returns for people who buy its shares.
▪ Type in your file name and press return.
▪ We were anxiously awaiting Pedro's return.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After her return, she had spent the first week weeping, conscious of her father's tight-lipped disappointment and indignant fury.
▪ Eaton said large institutional investors today are putting more pressure on publicly traded companies to increase their returns.
▪ In return, you will receive a salary in the range of £11,586 to £16,176 pa depending on qualifications and experience.
▪ Increasingly, businesses began to call for a return on their investment in public education.
▪ Note was taken that Ned had failed to advise the twelfth floor of Barley's drunken breakout after his return from Leningrad.
▪ The first two nights had passed in sheer misery, as he sat up waiting, praying for her return.
▪ The time period that funds can be invested is critical in maximizing the returns from investments.
▪ This return to a leaner structure is a direct result of the downturn in sales in key areas such as Impressionist paintings.
III.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
address
▪ L.P.E has many database functions for storing commonly used addresses and can automatically print a return address on each envelope if required.
▪ And there will need to be a note on return address, return by date etc.
▪ Not only is the return address on the e-mail almost certainly fraudulent, but responding to spam creates more traffic.
▪ Apart from noting the return addresses on the envelope, those who stayed didn't think much about the world outside.
▪ The return address was left blank, and a list of suspects could prove endless.
▪ In some cases they note the original postmark and return address.
▪ Sandarusi said he did not notice a return address.
call
▪ If you phone, you might get a return call, but from a different number.
flight
▪ This includes return flights, transfers, all meals and drinks, nightly entertainment, non-motorised watersports and activities.
▪ We often placed caches of them near the action to cut the wasted time of return flights.
▪ Each tour includes a return flight from Gatwick to Berlin, with transfers to and from your Berlin hotel.
▪ I never took the return flight home.
▪ En route, Shaker instructed two ships to join him on the return flight.
▪ In late afternoon the return flight begins.
journey
▪ The return journey would take another three days.
▪ Kyoto I filed away for a return journey.
▪ I run the nets out to the full extent and erect them on the return journey.
▪ It is best to retrace your steps for the return journey.
▪ The incident had happened on the return journey.
▪ It will wrap around this needle on the return journey.
▪ Florence is included in his return journey from Rome to Genoa.
▪ The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
leg
▪ It then climbs the inevitably steep hill back up to Alum chine on the return leg to Bournemouth.
▪ His 62-year-old converted trawler conked out after leaving Newfoundland on the return leg.
▪ A flight could be confirmed even with just one passenger, if there was demand on the return leg.
match
▪ In the return match, however, Sheffield thrashed Derby by 34 runs to win handsomely.
▪ In the return match at the Basin Reserve he took five wickets in the first innings and scored a handy 42.
▪ Although, to be honest, I'd understand if he turned down the offer of a return match.
▪ The return match is to be held next week at Leeds United's home ground, Elland Road.
▪ I could hardly wait for a return match.
ticket
▪ The cost of the return tickets for Diana and her sons is more than £7,000.
▪ Nevertheless, in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company, they had all been obliged to buy return tickets.
▪ At the inquest they said he probably hadn't intended to kill himself because he had a return ticket in his pocket.
▪ What nit gave him a return ticket?
trip
▪ Despite Morley Street's shock defeat by Chirkpar in that race last year, Jackson is tempted to make the return trip.
▪ Zubrin proposes burning methane with liquid oxygen for the return trip to Earth.
▪ Those last would not be required again until they reached the last mile of the return trip.
▪ It's a return trip in this category for co-winner Les Freres Taix.
▪ Some 250 passengers were booked on the return trip to Hamburg via Lisbon.
▪ He hoped he might encounter the girl in the Lotus Elan making the return trip.
▪ Another, on his first bus journey, noted down the name of a shop as a landmark for the return trip.
▪ Now, on the return trip to Lymington, he could see at least 200 white sails.
visit
▪ But when the Establishment booked a return visit for the comedian for 8 April 1963 it had problems.
▪ During his long walk home, he tried to figure out how to justify a return visit.
▪ The event was such a success that club members are very much looking forward to him making a return visit.
▪ Their elephant of a house was subordinate to no white mansion, and no Commonwealth Avenue calling cards urged return visits.
▪ Another statistic - 64 percent of Somerwest's 320,000 customers last year were paying a return visit.
▪ The crisis of the eighties occasions a return visit.
▪ There was some urgency because the return visit from Sochi was about to take place.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(on) sale or return
▪ All are on full sale on January 23-Knave sale or return from Blackhorse.
▪ All available goods may be taken on a sale or return basis. 9.
▪ Booksellers normally order books on a sale or return basis.
▪ This may be on a sale or return agreement without asking for payment.
▪ What is the position, though, where the buyer resells the goods on sale or return terms?
diminishing returns
▪ Technologies that helped rescue developing countries from famine in the 1970s have reached the point of diminishing returns.
▪ A law of diminishing returns applies to seed but not to pollen.
▪ But it doesn't take a crystal ball to figure out the diminishing returns involved in planning programmes around such disposable performers.
▪ For all of us there is also the law of diminishing returns that goes to work with each successive bite.
▪ It is a process of diminishing returns, as Arthur Holmes showed mathematically nearly 30 years ago.
▪ One was the idea of diminishing returns, applied in this case to income or wealth.
▪ The problem with chocolates is that they operate on a loss curve of massively diminishing returns.
▪ They have created new forms of entertainment rather than providing variations on old themes that inevitably have diminishing returns over time.
return the compliment
▪ As she pulled on a tan leather blouson, she eyed me warily, and I returned the compliment.
▪ Characteristically, Scargill is not returning the compliment and is not planning to co-operate with the alliance.
▪ Cheltenham's Tory faithful welcomed the Lady and she returned the compliment.
▪ Hardin returned the compliment with a blaster specifically borrowed for the occasion.
▪ I have ventured into the use of your name several times but you have not returned the compliment.
▪ If they failed to understand the settled peasants, the latter returned the compliment.
▪ One year later, the Eastbourne Road school is returning the compliment.
▪ What else to do but return the compliment?
rise/come back/return from the dead
▪ A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.
▪ Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.
▪ The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.
▪ When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.
the point of no return
▪ The dam project has reached the point of no return.
▪ By Joshua's time they had reached the point of no return.
▪ Foo was beyond the point of no return.
▪ In a few more moments this love scene would have reached the point of no return.
▪ Relationships with the union beyond the point of no return?
▪ Sailmaking We've reached the point of no return!
▪ Suddenly it passed the point of no return and plunged downwards.
▪ The fire is the point of no return for the Gaucis.
▪ The principal message conveyed by the leadership was that the Three Gorges project had reached the point of no return.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The return trip took about an hour less than the trip there.
▪ The sea was much calmer on the return voyage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from noting the return addresses on the envelope, those who stayed didn't think much about the world outside.
▪ Mulholland would later tell the valley people that his objective was simply to divert their unused and return flows.
▪ Ole Gunnar Solskjaer accepted a return ball from Dwight Yorke to complete the scoring in stoppage time.
▪ Professor Sano writes back by return mail.
▪ The return movement begins in October, but substantial numbers are not often present before November.
▪ Watch for the classic Fruko y Sus Tesos on a return engagement in November.