Example sentences of "come home at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm surprised you bother to come home at all ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a pity you bothered to come home at all , darling , ’ said Mrs. Mounce . |
| 3 | and she said something about , oh we 've been to that new pub , she said , mind , she said , we had to come home at half past nine , she said , he 'd had enough , she said , he were ready for bed , God , she said he 's turning into a right old man , and you know what I mean , she did n't , she would n't , |
| 4 | One autumn night , when Liz was preparing for Oxford and Cambridge entrance , Shirley had come home at ten from the Harpers ' , flushed from sexual excitement and from running through the cold streets under the yellowing smoke-scented suburban trees , her body on fire , and had found Liz still sitting where she had left her , two hours earlier , at the kitchen table , staring at the pale-green wall , as though in a catatonic trance . |
| 5 | You went to school at nine o'clock , you came home at twelve , you went back at two and you came home at half past four . |
| 6 | Then last year Charlie made it two when the Arthur Moore trained Ninepins came home at 14–1 in the Oddbins Handicap Hurdle after a terrific ride from Swan . |
| 7 | I used to cry till my husband came home at five o'clock . |
| 8 | but total revision an I mean , the other night he sat in , he came home at four o'clock and he was up till nine thirty just doing homework . |
| 9 | You came home at four in the morning . |
| 10 | No I came home at half two today . |
| 11 | You went to school at nine o'clock , you came home at twelve , you went back at two and you came home at half past four . |
| 12 | coming home at fifteen and he 's still playing at zombies |
| 13 | Yes , and she phoned me and she said I feel as though I dropped out of the bottom of the world she said , you know , I just do n't see anybody , I said well of course you were working on Mondays , you see she used to have Mondays to herself and I would often go round on a Monday afternoon and , we , we could talk , but that 's gone and I said I ca n't run in at half past five when you get home from school and chat to you because Ned will be coming home at six and I do n't want to be there all that often when he 's there erm its you know , its just happened and I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away then Fen Lane . |
| 14 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 15 | Yes but is he coming home at tenth or is he gon na be |
| 16 | He was the one that got me pregnant and he says that I ca n't come home at all now and I phoned the hospital , yes , and they said that come in and if I go in then you 're going to arrest me and then you 'll just call my dad like you always have done every time I 've run away from home and then every time you lot have took me back home and then I end up getting pregnant . |
| 17 | I expect you 're tired — you generally have a sherry and a nap when you come home at this time , and , besides , there are those papers to correct and I hoped you 'd help me unpack . |
| 18 | pedals over in the morning on Michael 's bike and comes home at eight o'clock at , half past eight at night . |
| 19 | And er he comes home at half past three and he then sort of told us what we 'd got to do in it . |