Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] at home " in BNC.

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1 An , if we fail to support them at home , we 'll only have ourselves to blame .
2 Richard Wiles went to meet them at home .
3 He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys .
4 Deborah invited me to meet her at home in North London , and mentioned on the phone that her mum , Elaine , would like to meet me too .
5 A spiral perm can cost over £100 but do n't be tempted to try it at home to save money .
6 Virginia Bottomley , Minister for Health , has announced that some people on low incomes who also find it difficult to visit their local opticians will be able to get help from the NHS to pay for the optician to visit them at home .
7 Below : When shooting cichlids they show their colours best when not stressed so try to shoot them at home in their shelters .
8 Joan Allen was 74 years old when her son asked her general practitioner to visit her at home .
9 Not surprisingly , it costs less for New York and New Jersey to send their rubbish halfway across America than to tip it at home .
10 We may think we are an uncaring society but in this matter of looking after our own , we are most emphatically not : for every hundred old people only one is in a home and then often after enormous efforts to help them at home have failed .
11 Does he agree that the right way to encourage the electronics industry to export is to help it at home by tax cuts such as those announced yesterday by our right hon. Friend ?
12 Now they want to use them at home .
13 The cool thing would be , during the three-day end of year exams , when you 're allowed to do them at home , to be seen drinking the Students ’ Union or in a pub around here , being terribly laid back while everyone else was hunched over their desks in their rooms . ’
14 I am sorry to have to disturb you at home , ma'am , but you do n't seem to be connected to the telephone system . ’
15 ‘ Since Maisie was taken ill I have found it even more difficult to leave her at home sometimes , ’ she says .
16 This is a deliberate training strategy that is used in the clinic and observed so that the parent learns how to do it at home .
17 He tried to do it at home and that was
18 ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’
19 you can listen if you want , only joking , no , I do n't think I can do that , I 'm allowed to listen to it , I have to record it at home you know as well
20 He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters .
21 When your family members went mad these days you had to keep them at home , and whatever the sound policies , on the part of the government , which lay behind this decision , it was undoubtedly inconvenient for those upon whom would fall the burden of caring for the deranged .
22 Not bad enough , he judged , for him to stay in bed but bad enough to keep him at home .
23 She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home .
24 But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will .
25 Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home .
26 I only know that I was never allowed to sing them at home .
27 You are welcome to call me at home on if you want to discuss this , but note that I am away between the 3rd-19th April .
28 So you have to watch it at home ?
29 ‘ Most of them preferred to see it at home .
30 But it 's handy to get them at home , so that you can see whether you really want to make that journey after all .
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