Example sentences of "when [pron] returned to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I returned to the drawing room , a clergyman was talking about the hardships being suffered by children in Berlin . |
| 2 | This gave me pause , and when I returned to the hut I tried out a few grins into a hand mirror , and decided he was quite right ! |
| 3 | When I returned to the hotel I telephoned Ron back home in Britain . |
| 4 | When I returned to the laibon 's village with the paperwork , he was looking out towards Ol Doinyo Lengai waiting for the sound and the dust and the cries of his cattle coming back . |
| 5 | Later , when I returned to the old man , I found him alone with a few boys and the American film . |
| 6 | When I returned to the palace with my boxes , I was able to stand on one box on one side of the wall and step on to the other box on the other side . |
| 7 | I called out that we were ready , but there was no answer , and when I returned to the bedroom I found her lying back full length on the bed , her eyes open and gazing up at the ceiling with that same vacant stare . |
| 8 | Yet when I returned to the house just now I sensed that something — unusual had occurred . ’ |
| 9 | Then , when I returned to the shrine — to Oak Lodge — I realized that the Keeton girl had been making contact with me . ’ |
| 10 | When I returned to the UK in 1937 , just as the Expansion was getting underway and when the RAF was some 33,000 strong , one could see more people at a mid-week match at Arsenal . |
| 11 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 12 | When she returned to the UK , however , she entered into the restaurant and hotel business with her husband Gordon . |
| 13 | When she returned to the bedroom she was carrying a flannel . |
| 14 | Something had , at any rate , when she returned to the dining room a few minutes later . |
| 15 | When she returned to the kitchen , Annie was touched and surprised to see tears in Tamar 's eyes . |
| 16 | Aaron 's company director mum Leah , 36 , only discovered what had happened when she returned to the centre after work . |
| 17 | When she returned to the table and began scooping the first of the curd into a mould , they felt her eyes burning into them , all three of them . |
| 18 | When she returned to the kitchen , she sank down at the table and tried to eat a little of the food , conscious that Craig was watching her . |
| 19 | She escaped her sister 's gimlet gaze when she returned to the privacy of her own apartment . |
| 20 | When she returned to the ward the foot of the bed was elevated to tip the bed to an angle of 45 . |
| 21 | When she returned to the drawing-room , she found that Charles , Alix and Esther were discussing , with much animation , the Italian economy . |
| 22 | When she returned to the kitchen , she found Beth sprinkling a shovelful of coals on to the fire . |
| 23 | As she went from the room , Beth could hear Cissie moaning behind her , and knew they would be going through the same old argument when she returned to the kitchen . |
| 24 | When she returned to the house , she found everything as they had left it and the fire still burning . |
| 25 | But when she returned to the cool breakfast-room where Faye was spending the morning , the artist clapped her hands together delightedly and said , ‘ There ! |
| 26 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 27 | When she returned to the bedroom , clad only in a towel , he was already in bed , and he smiled softly . |
| 28 | When she returned to the house in late afternoon , Ellie 's determination to put a few pertinent questions to Mrs McMahon and then leave was thwarted — deliberately , probably — by Feargal , who was with his mother in the lounge . |
| 29 | When she returned to the house , she found Sam skipping on the terrace like a child . |
| 30 | She knew what she would use to make the mask , but when she returned to the glade where , yesterday , she had visited the Moondream rajathuk , she found it quite destroyed . |