Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to home " in BNC.

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1 And er some of the things that er all assignment details are sent to the to the estate agent not to home .
2 The importance of doing courses at an institution closer to home is not surprising when one considers adults are likely to have commitments which limit their ability to travel long distances or stay away from home .
3 Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home .
4 So people were increasingly being faced with the problem of lots more dog mess close to home and how to dispose of it !
5 With its simple , discreet lines it will scarcely dominate the room visually ; but the anonymity ends there , for it will certainly bring the concert hall closer to home than many listeners could possibly have imagined .
6 It is important , however , to have a source of money close to home .
7 Now some of them could find fame closer to home .
8 No doubt Sir David is off on another of his trips to an exotic location soon — but for now he 's happy to settle for a spot of exploration a bit nearer to home .
9 ‘ In our case , I think people were looking further afield for education without realising that they had a very good facility close to home .
10 As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect .
11 But now there are new allegations of another scandal closer to home .
12 But now there are new allegations of another scandal closer to home .
13 Since March the dogs have competed in a mixture of open and championship shows as far afield as Leeds , Doncaster and Stafford and the occasional show close to home .
14 In the days that followed , each one taking the ship closer to home , Lindsey knew she had never been more glad of the solid routine which , if it did n't keep her mind fully occupied , at least kept her hands busy .
15 There is no need to cross the Pacific to explain the Mayan civilisation ; there is a perfectly simple explanation closer to home .
16 The two decided Heron 's losses in America and the impact of recession on housing and property closer to home would mean it would run out of money in late 1993 .
17 Oxfam 's work has brought the third world closer to home .
18 No doubt Smith , the Oxford University Australian , who won five caps for the Wallabies , will feel a bit closer to home facing the All Blacks twice in the next 11 days .
19 The other replay tonight is a little bit closer to home at Peterborough to be precise , Peterborough against Blackpool , that game has just kicked off , no goals in that one at the moment .
20 Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family .
21 Evangelical opponents of cruelty to animals campaigned against the trade in feathers , along with other forms of cruelty closer to home including cock-fighting and scientific vivisection experiments .
22 ‘ So we have a connection closer to home : Doyle saw something that threatened them .
23 However , the couple found help for their son closer to home at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Development Centre , near BAe 's Broughton plant .
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