Example sentences of "[adv] returned to her [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She had not long returned to her room however , when her telephone rang , and when she answered it the sun came out . |
2 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
3 | After leaving Dekalb at 20 , Cindy always returned to her mother for advice — except when it came to Gere , 17 years her senior . |
4 | A friend of mine once returned to her house after a few month 's absence and found that though the font of her desk looked exactly the same as before she left , termites had eaten out the back of it and destroyed the contents of several drawers . |
5 | She glanced round as Melissa entered , alerted by the creak of the heavy wooden door , but immediately returned to her task of removing faded blooms and replacing them with fresh ones . |
6 | It came under her classification of Faye being ‘ temperamental ’ , but she found the dress for Belinda easily enough and then returned to her canapés . |
7 | She tried it in English , then returned to her story . |
8 | ‘ Something like that , ’ said Kelly , and then returned to her thoughts . |
9 | Maggie saw Lawler out , then returned to her tea , finishing it in a single swallow . |
10 | Her mother was still sleeping and Maureen hastily drank a cup of tea then returned to her ambulance . |
11 | She stood there until he went quiet , stayed a few minutes longer to be certain and only then returned to her cupboard bedroom next to the servants ' loft . |
12 | After a while , when the sickness had passed , she went to the wash-hand basin to wash and freshen-up , then returned to her seat at the dinner table . |
13 | Leonora nodded silently then returned to her labours . |
14 | Silas spoke to his uncle , then returned to her side . |
15 | She was not particularly hungry , but she went down to the hotel 's dining-room around eight that evening , then returned to her room to spend a fitful night . |
16 | I need to know where I can find a woman who has recently returned to her family after having run away with a man called Resenence Jeopardy . ’ |
17 | MAYBE the region 's first certainly the best known women 's activist was Joan Maynard , born in Thirsk and , aged 71 , happily returned to her roots . |