Example sentences of "when [noun] returned [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little square woman — to be identified when sanity returned as the doctor 's wife came to change my bedding and cleanse me regularly . |
| 2 | Josie said when Lucy returned from the pay phone at the end of the corridor . |
| 3 | When Jean returned from the Ladies there was no sign of either of them , for at the end of the dance they had slipped unnoticed out of one of the wide-open fire exits and around the back of the hall where only courting couples went . |
| 4 | When Edward returned from the Mediterranean , there was a letter waiting for him . |
| 5 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 6 | When Cornelius returned from the gents , Tuppe was nowhere to be seen . |
| 7 | When Martin returned with the bottle , Mrs Denham picked the baby out of his chair , and settled back with him in her arms . |
| 8 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 9 | When JTR returned to the Boathouse that night he ‘ had walked thirty-five miles , and had given a place in the sketchbook to eight subjects . ’ |
| 10 | When Rowlandson returned in the afternoon he would find the shadows all dexterously transferred to the plate by means of the aquatint . |
| 11 | When Danny returned from the States Sean was well into ultra stalled hand plants assisted by 2 or 3 platform spectators so in a doubles act with Mark Abrook , Danny had to go one better by actually making a hand plant on Mark 's back whilst Mark was doing a backside grind . |
| 12 | Her hands were shaking as she obliged , so the photos were going to be blurred , and she put the camera down hastily when Nicky returned to the lounge with Luke . |
| 13 | It was still raining hours later when Sara returned to the cottage . |
| 14 | When Greg returned with the snowball , Margaret Seymour-Strachey had shifted her position so as to be better shielded from the rest of the Saloon Bar , and it was clear that she had not managed to get control over herself , for she was now sobbing away quietly . |
| 15 | When Talbot returned to the bridge he could see the marker buoy just astern , bobbing gently in the very small wake Van Gelder was creating as he edged the Ariadne gently to the north-west . |
| 16 | When Wycliffe returned to the bookshop Dr Franks 's Porsche had joined the line of vehicles down one side of the street and it was raining . |
| 17 | When Wycliffe returned to the Incident Room the printer , like all the other business people in the town , had closed his shop and gone home , but two reporters were keeping vigil . |
| 18 | When Wycliffe returned to the quay the ferry was discharging passengers , a score or more from this trip , among them some obvious visitors , but mainly women returning from shopping in Falmouth . |
| 19 | The populace generally played little part in that agitation , but when Wilkes returned from the exile in 1768 to which he had fled from fear of imprisonment , debt and the fighting of a duel , to fight the Middlesex election , he became the symbol of a much wider agitation . |
| 20 | When MPs returned to the Commons , it soon became clear that all was not well , as Robert Sanders noted : |
| 21 | When Leonora returned to the bedroom she found the bed turned down invitingly . |