Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I just stopped at home . " |
| 2 | My party of five soon felt at home and relaxed here . |
| 3 | They were a very friendly lot and I soon felt at home . |
| 4 | I did n't go back to school after coming out of hospital , I felt that all that potential had gone ; I just stayed at home watching ‘ Rainbow ’ and ‘ Play School ’ . |
| 5 | No did n't go any where at all just stayed at home . |
| 6 | Otherwise people just stayed at home and ignored Government encouragement to come into the office . |
| 7 | Just stayed at home I hid in the shower . |
| 8 | Jem still lived at home — was that why Lucy had no lovers ? |
| 9 | Which could be quite a bit as they all still lived at home with their mums and dads . |
| 10 | Many of his young friends still lived at home under the watchful eyes of their mothers and needed a place to take their mistresses . |
| 11 | She still lived at home , handing the meagre amount of money on which she was supposed to have managed to her mother . |
| 12 | The teenager gets older , encounters some nicer , more controlled , more kindly people than he or she ever found at home — most people behave worst in their own homes — and with any luck comes to understand , yes , there is an aspiration or so floating around out there , and , if he , she , has n't seen too many horror movies , been too beaten up in body and mind , regains a little faith in a world at least potentially redeemable . |
| 13 | But nothing I ever heard at home attracts me to literature or the arts . |
| 14 | Although I was at art school for four years , I was hardly ever there , I always worked at home . |
| 15 | She always felt at home here . |
| 16 | He records : ‘ I quickly felt at home in England . |
| 17 | Walker always looked at home until his move to Italy sapped his self-belief and left the normally swift-heeled defender looking as if he had feet of clay . |
| 18 | with Argyll 's management and substantial experience in the food and drink markets , both nationally and internationally , we can restore Distillers to the pre-eminent position it once occupied at home and abroad , and that we have the opportunity to build Distillers and Argyll into Scotland 's greatest company … based in Edinburgh and directed from there . |
| 19 | I went round to their place again and we had toast and tea with real cow 's milk , not the Handy Brand condensed milk we always had at home . |
| 20 | One of the by-products of contact with Europe was a boom in wine sales , which nearly doubled at home , and a long-overdue improvement in restaurant standards . |
| 21 | Dave Higgins also looked at home in an unfamiliar right-back berth . |
| 22 | Many people wisely stayed at home , and that left one theatre in Cirencester without and audience . |
| 23 | I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold . |
| 24 | ‘ We often played at home . ’ |
| 25 | We really felt at home here from the first time we came . |
| 26 | She went out of the room longing to slam the door as she often did at home , but she did n't dare to here . |
| 27 | Men who might have gone to England and earned good wages at the harvest now stayed at home and waited for relief work at one-third of those rates . |
| 28 | Little died at home in Ryarsh , Kent , 7 July 1894 , and was buried there . |
| 29 | On that day , as I slowly followed the trail , I simply felt at home and at peace . |
| 30 | Those denied an education remained in hospitals without any form of mental stimulation or simply stayed at home ; a few attended ‘ junior ’ training centres . |