Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] at home " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We are fearful that older people who want to remain at home may not have the choice because the cost may be more than local authorities can afford ’ , says divisional director Evelyn MeEwen . |
2 | Living rooms that also have to act as office or work room by day ( and more and more people elect to work at home if they can these days ) can still perform both functions with comparative case . |
3 | ‘ It was important to come back after Saturday , and we always want to win at home . |
4 | If you want to experiment at home , it 'll cost you far less than in a salon but you should get a friend to help put the rollers in to get perfectly even curls . |
5 | That help makes all the difference to people sick with AIDS who want to stay at home , rather than spend time unnecessarily in hospital . |
6 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
7 | So you 've got twenty nine students in the class and fifteen want to go to Whitby , and eight want to go to Scarborough , and three little piggies want to stay at home . |
8 | Southerners tend to drink at home . |
9 | It 's not everyone who contrive to lose at home to Luton . |
10 | ACET is in touch with around 300 infected individuals of which about 130 need support to stay at home . |
11 | Get your appetite where you can , just remember to eat at home . ’ |
12 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
13 | If you decide to exercise at home ( and there are many programmes and routines on tape , in magazines and in books ) remember to start slowly and build up gradually , following the warming-up exercise faithfully at the beginning and end of the programme . |
14 | Organisations like ACET need this support to enable people like myself to retain maximum control and continue to live at home as independently as we can . |
15 | Organisations like ACET need this kind of support to enable people like myself to retain maximum control and continue to live at home . |
16 | At present , many continue to live at home , attending adult training centres , or employed in manual work . |
17 | In some areas and in some social groups , children continue to live at home until they marry . |
18 | Perhaps on this occasion , many of them will do the sensible thing and decide to stay at home . |
19 | Similarly , when we turn to care at home , it is not clear that if the costs of such support were to exceed those of residential care , they could or should be met . |
20 | Once you get in the habit of really noticing what you eat , and expecting from the restaurants the same care for quality and ‘ real food ’ value you try to achieve at home , making the healthy choice becomes second nature . |
21 | Many of those women who choose to stay at home and bring up their children are made to feel guilty by outsiders ( often in the media ) implying that they ‘ should ’ be working . |
22 | Well , of course this option must be open , but the needs of the women who choose to stay at home , if only for a short time , can not be ignored . |
23 | For those who wish to stay at home , or who can not obtain a move , Age Concern believes that there is an urgent need to improve housing conditions . |
24 | Help to stay at home : |
25 | I refuse to sit at home with my needlepoint , dear . |
26 | They are given advice , counselling and work to do at home . |
27 | ‘ I do n't , but there are things I have to do at home . ’ |
28 | I 'll have to give up work to stay at home and look after him . ’ |
29 | We are not going to use violence , we are not going to tell girls they ca n't go out and play in the streets , that they have to stay at home . |
30 | But it 's just as sad if highly qualified and trained women lose everything they 've worked for because they have to stay at home . |