Sentence examples for were obliged to return from inspiring English sources

We were obliged to return, and there was nothing we could do".

After proceeding up it about six hundred miles, nearly as far as the French settlements had extended while the country was in their possession, our geographers were obliged to return without completing their work.

In the Riksdag (Parliament) of 1655 he imposed the Reduction, by which the nobles were obliged to return to the crown certain endowed lands and either to pay an annual fee or to surrender one-quarter of the crown lands they had acquired since 1633.

There will have seemed little continental allure to the players when they were obliged to return for pre-season training early.

The sun rises and sets at 6 o'clock every day of the year in the Amazon, so we were obliged to return to the mother ship by 5 30.

Although he expected to reach the village by the time the hour had past, Church's force became delayed by stream crossings made more difficult by the receding tide: "But meeting with several creeks near twenty or thirty feet deep, which were very muddy and dirty, so that the army could not get over them, were obliged to return to their boats again".

His wife was obliged to return to teaching.

Indeed, I'm obliged to return to Paris at that time.

Pratt, however, acknowledged his contract for Jurassic World meant he was obliged to return.

But city leaders are obliged to return quickly to the issue and fill the holes in their education package.

They come to visit her whenever possible but as they are obliged to return to their herds and migrating journeys, Vaynoto is often left alone.