Example sentences of "he [vb past] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed he lived at home with his widowed mother and , following a fight with her , he had picked up an axe and killed her . |
| 2 | Mr Szuluk was refused a clothing grant from the Department of Social Security , which said that because he lived at home with his parents , he was n't a priority case . |
| 3 | And as he recovered at home , he opened up about the moment he thought his season was over . |
| 4 | And then in October he collapsed at home . |
| 5 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 6 | He started at home to QPR at the end of last season and possibly in other games . |
| 7 | He died at home in Jesmond , Newcastle upon Tyne , 25 August 1976 from the heart disease which had dogged his latter years . |
| 8 | He died at home at 12 Clarence Terrace , Regent 's Park , 4 September 1922 . |
| 9 | He died at home 18 January 1953 . |
| 10 | He died at home at Hartsholme Hall , near Lincoln , 25 January 1883 . |
| 11 | He died at home in Tenterden Street 1 May 1818 , being buried at St George 's , Hanover Square , where the burial register notes that he was aged thirty-five . |
| 12 | Blote himself made use of the BKR scheme for twenty-five years ; during the last phase of the scheme 's existence he sold works to the value of DFl.150,000 to the government , most of which he kept at home . |
| 13 | Dwelling on the sentence , memorized from a paper-covered novel he kept at home , he felt revenged . |
| 14 | In the town , and in the university , he felt at home . |
| 15 | One director used him in Waiting for Godot , and he felt at home in a straight play at last , but unfortunately a critic wrote four hundred words about the Christly nature of the moment when he took his hat off . |
| 16 | When he was shot he was not wearing his jacket or tie so presumably he felt at home , wherever it was . ’ |
| 17 | He looked at home in this wilderness , and the newborn something inside her responded to that male strength . |
| 18 | He seems to have enjoyed greater success with the public than he did at home , however . |
| 19 | She had a vision of John sitting hunched up in his chair , as he did at home sometimes when things were going wrong , all dark and gaunt and unhappy . |
| 20 | ‘ My win in the Mercedes German Masters was my first for three years , ’ he said at home in Largs where he finds peace and solace with son Daniel and Suzanne . |
| 21 | He wrote at home in the morning and then , on free afternoons , he liked to walk with his wife in Kensington Gardens : particularly he enjoyed watching the boats which children brought to the Round Pond there . |
| 22 | Night in , night out he sat at home in his basement office dictating his account of the day , and seeking to record and explain for posterity what was going wrong . |
| 23 | There he sat at home on his Oxfordshire farm every few months , behaving like a one-man Greek chorus , informing us ( he had every intention even then of publishing well short of the thirty-year limit ) of the vicissitudes of the British Constitution . |
| 24 | He remained at home where Mary nursed him until he died fifteen months later . |
| 25 | He remained at home from work on various days through terror of being waylaid on emerging from the factory . |
| 26 | He should have gone away to prep school at eight , but Claudia did n't want him to feel rejected just because there was a baby half-sister , so he stayed at home . |
| 27 | ‘ My husband was made redundant and I went out to work while he stayed at home to do the chores . |
| 28 | He stayed at home for part of that month , and his doctor advised him to restrict his engagements as much as possible . |
| 29 | In May he went to convalesce by the seaside , near Littlehampton , and on Ms return he stayed at home for another month , attempting only light work : all important social and public engagements were cancelled until the autumn . |
| 30 | In December , while in the last stages of composition , he stayed at home because of the London fog , and at the beginning of the new year he took to his bed for a week with a slight chill . |