Example sentences of "[to-vb] at home [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Many Religious belong to international congregations and can be asked to work at home or abroad . |
| 3 | ‘ Teleworking is the use of modern computer technology to allow people to work at home or at a local telecentre . |
| 4 | Why was it that British industrialists took advantage of rising labour productivity to reduce their labour force , rather than to develop new forms of production using more sophisticated techniques and making improved products to sell at home and abroad ? |
| 5 | Yes but the , Julie said , and she 's right of course , you ca n't have the erm strength of drugs to , to , to administer at home because obviously |
| 6 | Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me . |
| 7 | Some parents may be encouraging their children to help at home or even take up work instead of going to school . |
| 8 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 9 | This was not a lucrative job , but she had had so much to do at home that she could n't undertake anything else . |
| 10 | Brewing Nescafé on her own gas-ring and buying solitary quarter pounds of cheese for herself ; and painting one wall geranium red and another cornflower blue and the others white , as she wanted to do at home but her mother would not let her . |
| 11 | The analogy was there to draw between what they were prepared to do at home and what they might contemplate doing out of sight in a subjected territory . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Research has shown that 70 per cent of us would prefer to die at home and only 30 per cent of us do . |
| 13 | Our aim is to enable people to live and to die at home if that is their wish and appropriate to their needs . |
| 14 | In some areas and in some social groups , children continue to live at home until they marry . |
| 15 | The implication of this strong argument is that it may become cheaper in straightforward labour cost terms at the level of the economy to pay some people to stay at home while automated machinery produces the goods and services . |
| 16 | The school will be closed for up to a week , and pupils will have to stay at home while temporary buildings are put up on the site . |
| 17 | After one or two walks over the hills together the girl preferred to stay at home so the mother went on her own ; on one of these occasions Peony had actually tidied up and got tea ready and gone a little way along the track to meet her mother when she saw her coming up the hill . |
| 18 | ‘ Not only are people starting to stay at home but the next danger is that there is so much football that viewers will start saying , ‘ Do I really want to watch this ? ’ ’ |
| 19 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 20 | Possibly this is why the argument as to whether it is better for a woman with young children to stay at home or go out to work goes round and round in circles . |
| 21 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'll have to give up work to stay at home and look after him . ’ |
| 26 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 27 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 28 | So perhaps the moral for itinerant artists is to stay at home and work with what you know . |
| 29 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 30 | She knows that if she had pointed this out to William , and expressed her own wish to take child , and papers , to the Common , William would obligingly have offered to stay at home and chop carrots and peel potatoes and keep an eye on the lamb in the oven . |