Example sentences of "[verb] he [prep] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eddie McAteer made a public call for the march to be postponed , but Fred Heatley , John McAnerney and Betty Sinclair visited him at home to persuade him not to pull out . |
| 2 | For the last two years or so of Phillip 's life , Marje never visited him at home , according to friends . |
| 3 | It must also be remembered that death usually took place in the home , not only because nineteenth century parents preferred it , but also because , before the development of antisepsis in practical nursing in the last quarter of the century , to send a patient to hospital was much more likely to prove fatal than keeping him at home . |
| 4 | I climbed the steps up onto the lock and knocked on the door of the lock-keeper 's house , and through great good fortune found him at home . |
| 5 | STUART BAILIE meets him at home in San Francisco , and finds Mr Lucky 's trademark suit — and sauce — thankfully intact |
| 6 | So many of you enjoy Dr. D 's column ( we have taken an extract from his latest book this month , page 176 ) that we photographed him at home with his new wife , TV presenter and novelist , Christine Webber , page 8 . |
| 7 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
| 8 | I telephoned him at home immediately and told him about the fatigue failure , adding my recommendation that he should order the examination of all UK registered Boeing 707/300 stabilisers for signs of similar failure at the earliest opportunity . |
| 9 | That was why Simon Draper was appalled , horrified and dumbstruck when Richard Branson telephoned him at home one Sunday evening in March 1984 , gushing enthusiasm for another idea . |
| 10 | There was no real way of keeping him away from Irish friends … unless of course , he were to have an accident too — something that would keep him at home for several months preferably . |
| 11 | My son Jonathan , who turns two on Christmas Day , was fascinated to see his own image when I captured him on home video . |
| 12 | I 'll contact him at home . ’ |
| 13 | She had called him at home to check on what time he was coming to pick |
| 14 | Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home . |
| 15 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 16 | I felt I ought to try and phone him at home to tip him off — if I got the chance . |
| 17 | I think I 'll try him at home . |
| 18 | ‘ This is not the mood , these are not the spirits , in which I 've known him at home . |
| 19 | ‘ I like having him at home , but I also need a day to myself now and again , just to be able to think my own thoughts . ’ |
| 20 | They were slightly embarrassed that he had been left out , but had agreed at the time that there was no sense in phoning him at home because he would have nothing useful to say . |
| 21 | ‘ We kept him at home and mollycoddled him , that 's the trouble . |
| 22 | Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded . |
| 23 | It was strange , the conversation Dad and I had , because when I saw him at home later and over the next few days he behaved as if it had never happened , as if he had n't told me he 'd fallen in love with someone else . |
| 24 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 25 | No , I mean he rang , I was supposed to ring him at home though . |
| 26 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 27 | But I think I can get him at home if you want to call it off . ’ |
| 28 | During his spin around Phoenix , the ambassador remarked that the climate and surroundings reminded him of home . |
| 29 | Wexford , Ireland , and was sent to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris after no expense had been spared educating him at home . |
| 30 | For years she has been complaining ‘ I never see anything of you , darling ’ and ‘ Why ca n't you spend a little more time with the family ? ’ — so naturally he expects her to be delighted to have him at home . |