Example sentences of "have [verb] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home . |
| 2 | First , that from the accident and until the plaintiff was discharged from Hunstead Park in May nineteen ninety and second the period the plaintiff has spent at home from such a discharge until now . |
| 3 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |
| 4 | All that it would take would be a couple more calls like the one that he 'd received at home , at three o'clock that same morning , from the night manager of a certain parkside hotel . |
| 5 | He came and stood beside me and picked out one of the new abstracts I 'd done at home . |
| 6 | I wish I 'd stayed at home to clean the oven after all . |
| 7 | I would rather he 'd stayed at home with us , but it was his choice , and he 's not a child any longer . ’ |
| 8 | She would never have had the kind of success she 's had , with Broadway and so on , if she 'd stayed at home in England waiting to be asked . |
| 9 | It 's like what I said to Tony last night when I got in I said , I feel I could have achieved more if I 'd stayed at home and revised . |
| 10 | Mal worked in Boots ; friends she 'd entertained at home suggested she 'd do better dispensing authentic grub to a wider circle . |
| 11 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 12 | He 'd recorded a telephone conversation — a call he 'd taken at home . |
| 13 | If you have not worked regularly at some time since 1978 because you have had to stay at home to care for either a child or a sick or elderly person you may have protected your right to a pension by claiming HRP . |
| 14 | Men and women whether single or married who have been unable to work regularly because they have had to stay at home to care for children and/o-r a disabled or elderly person may be able to safeguard their pension by claiming Home Responsibilities Protection . |
| 15 | I know you should 've stayed at home till the beginning of this week . |
| 16 | The amount of basic salary which exceeds that which the employee would have received at home as a pensionable salary is termed an overseas allowance . |
| 17 | ‘ Now I will have to sit at home with my fingers crossed and hope we get the right result . ’ |
| 18 | After first of all declining to write for the series , Nation eventually agreed after a row with his former employer , comedian Tony Hancock , left him with no income to pay for a central heating system he was having installed at home . |
| 19 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 20 | Edward Lear , too , would have felt at home in Bletchley 's realm of Complete Nonsense ; and he would even have found a friend called Foss . |
| 21 | Bournemouth must have felt at home on a pitch which resembled a beach after the tide had receded . |
| 22 | Thus by 1930 , when a Roman would still have felt at home on an Andalusian estate , Catalonia contained some of the largest textile concerns in Europe and the immigrant labour , which poured into the Catalan towns in order to escape the wretchedness of rural life , brought into the labour movements of a modern industrial civilization the millenarian tradition of peasants and landless labourers . |
| 23 | It is a homage to the kind of spirit that would have felt at home in Philip Glass . |
| 24 | Erm , so I was constantly getting rises , less my service pay and erm it got to a state there where sometimes my service pay was more than what the erm salary I would have got at home was and my wife had to pay to keep my superannuation live . |
| 25 | ‘ I should have stayed at home , ’ said Cameron . |
| 26 | He could have stayed at home since , in the year of his journey , Famous Players-Lasky set up its own studio in Islington , to make films the American way . |
| 27 | Wednesday 's match marked the Dutch football federation 's centenary , although considering the side Holland were forced to field , Queen Beatrix might just as well have stayed at home and sent the centenarians a congratulatory telegram . |
| 28 | Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier . |
| 29 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 30 | The lads said I should have stayed at home . |