Example sentences of "returned to her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After dinner Leonora returned to her knitting , glad of its soothing monotony , when Penry began musing about her background . |
| 2 | She inclined her head and returned to her friends . |
| 3 | Putting a clamp on her growing exasperation , she returned to her contemplation of the recumbent form on the bench . |
| 4 | Beth could not bear to witness such humiliation , and so she averted her gaze and returned to her work . |
| 5 | With a snort of laughter , she returned to her case and humped it on to the bed . |
| 6 | Having danced with influential choreographers Bill T Jones and Arnie Zane in New York for two years and been ‘ worked to the bone ’ in the process , Bunty Matthias returned to her home turf of London last year in order to do her ‘ own thing ’ . |
| 7 | Eight months after she returned to her home in Langley Vale , near Ep som , Surrey , the dream was shattered . |
| 8 | The man agreed that the 15-year-old alleged victim looked ‘ quite bewildered ’ when she returned to her home to see Casabona and the lodger inside . |
| 9 | Mrs Busuttil returned to her home in Ayton Court , Guisborough , but was admitted three days later to Middlesbrough Maternity Hospital because the baby had died . |
| 10 | When she returned to her apartment later that night her friends were eager for news . |
| 11 | She returned to her address to find Casabona inside , holding a knife . |
| 12 | ( When Ms Arrowsmith returned to her pacifist work , she was again arrested , but this time prosecuted and convicted under the more severe Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934 . |
| 13 | But in August last year she returned to her parents , who had moved to County Mayo in Ireland . |
| 14 | She returned to her parents in Stepney in the East End of London where she died soon after giving birth to a baby daughter in June 1840 . |
| 15 | Liza , distraught at the news , came home on compassionate leave , which she spent in such a state of shock and distress that Harriet began to feel that the sooner she returned to her duties the better . |
| 16 | On silent feet , she returned to her duties , mindful of her place in the order of things . |
| 17 | As she returned to her nest , looking around her , she could see it so clearly that it made her laugh . |
| 18 | But she could not lose her anxiety and , finding a guilty conscience the very devil to live with , she returned to her hotel hoping that she would never again be called upon to impersonate her sister . |
| 19 | Having stopped a couple of times for refreshment , Fabia returned to her hotel around six o'clock , and realised that she had found Mariánské Láznë quite enchanting . |
| 20 | She shuddered and returned to her typewriter . |
| 21 | I persuaded them both to come out of the room the same way , as I had no key to the door , and took Heathcliff down into the warm servants ' kitchen with me , while Catherine returned to her guests and the dancing . |
| 22 | She returned to her seat and he sank languidly into the chair opposite . |
| 23 | She returned to her book . |
| 24 | Gillian returned to her office on a high . |
| 25 | For it was around eleven that morning , when she returned to her office after going to consult Dave Smith about some matter , that Jimmy told her chirpily , ‘ I knew I did n't put this tie on for nothing . |
| 26 | It gave her address , her phone number , her next of kin … he tore off this last part and put it back into the locket , which he returned to her body . |
| 27 | Ellie never returned to her parish church . |
| 28 | Giles returned to her side . |
| 29 | She returned to her room . |
| 30 | Finally , to avoid a scene , his wife granted him an audience and Alice returned to her room upstairs to allow them some privacy . |