Sentence examples for return to retrieve from inspiring English sources

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When, some mornings, I return, to retrieve a few final oddments — andirons, picture frames — the space of the house greets me with virginal impudence.

Though some parents ultimately return to retrieve their children, social workers say they expect that most will not and that the children will grow up in foster care, moving from orphanage to orphanage.

So in an act of modern horse-trading, Mr. Rumsfeld's staff said, the Pentagon offered a herder a flashlight in ceremonial compensation for his agreement to care for the horse along with his herd 100 miles from Ulan Bator, at least until the defense secretary can return to retrieve his gift.

The end result is that the only way to manage it is to get as close as you are allowed with the baby, hand the child to another MP, race through to vote as quickly as you can and then return to retrieve baby thereby releasing your poor colleague to go and vote themselves before the doors are locked.

Part ATM and part bank vault, this new machine is so strong people living with no security - such as in Haiti after the earthquake - can safely store their cash in it and return to retrieve it at will.

Then we heard that police were outside the front door, and witnesses from another loft space in the building reported seeing police attack a man from the party, Bruce Buck, who had tried to return to retrieve his coat.

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When they returned to retrieve him, his boat was there.

He returns to retrieve it, and that leads to wonderful events.

Mr. Keyes later returned to retrieve the phone and tidy up.

The participants pushed the Mercedes into their luggage trailer and hauled the car to Eureka, Calif., returning to retrieve the Bugatti afterward and repeat the feat.

He made the announcement after residents began returning to retrieve belongings from their homes and as local and foreign journalists began exploring the area.

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