Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my Mum that I had a headache so she let me stay at home . |
| 2 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 3 | Some of these girls whose families have come from rural areas in Azad Kashmir or Mirpur feel that their parents allow them to go to school only because in Britain it would be illegal for them to remain at home . |
| 4 | To create an even greater homogeneity we excluded also all those who were doubly incontinent at referral ( since we know that the project found such people very hard to support ; see Chapter Seven ) , and all those whose condition — either mental or physical — was deemed too poor at referral for them to remain at home at all . |
| 5 | Each source contributed to the attempt to understand what dementia sufferers needed in order to help them stay at home . |
| 6 | I needed a job which would enable me to work at home , and be with my family every evening . |
| 7 | Anna had me educated at home as she herself had been and Constanza . |
| 8 | Very rarely do I eat at home . |
| 9 | When I lived at home my mum was cool about whatever I wore ; her only considerations were practical ones , like insisting I wore ten million jumpers if I went out in the cold . |
| 10 | But I lived at home . ’ |
| 11 | She 's very muddly and disorganized and I can see so clearly where she falls wrong … when I lived at home it was always a bit of a nightmare because I was always trying to get things straight . |
| 12 | No-one ‘ dropped in ’ on our family the whole of the time I lived at home . |
| 13 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 14 | If it 's like the one we lived in , cos when I , I lived at home with mum and dad we lived in Craigan Road and they 're two rooms . |
| 15 | As I sit at home , typing this book into a word processor , I can count over thirty devices around me which contain an integrated circuit of some kind . |
| 16 | The ones I grow at home er well they are named . |
| 17 | ‘ When I cook at home I cook quite simply . |
| 18 | I practised at home , of course . |
| 19 | What would I do at home all day ? ’ |
| 20 | Impersonal , yes , but quite practical , though of course lacking the warmth and atmosphere I enjoyed at home . |
| 21 | Everyone I know at home is either here , or has been here . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's nothing Biff Thacker can do to me that will even touch what I get at home . ’ |
| 23 | During the time I spent at home I seem to have eaten nothing but apples and , if I am to be believed , an inordinate number of them . |
| 24 | D' ya know what , whenever I feel guilty about spending some money now , I just think about how much I spent at home . |
| 25 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 26 | Like if I worked at home on Saturday night , and I worked at home on a Sunday lunch-time it would be really , really busy all the time , and like there 's four areas to cover in and there 's only two areas and I think its too |
| 27 | With the politics of action too , I feel at home . |
| 28 | I feel at home here . ’ |
| 29 | I know what they mean — I 've lived three quarters of my life in council estates , that 's where I feel at home . |
| 30 | though I feel at home here , in a way , in a light |