Example sentences of "home [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come . |
| 2 | I tried staying in town overnight and then driving home during the day to spend time with Maisie . |
| 3 | They used to get us home during the day , and when I come home from Norwich delivering a load of hay , there 'd be another load waiting for me . |
| 4 | As we returned home during the afternoon of 31 December , it was freezing . |
| 5 | I arrived home during the night , so I did n't wake Maryann up . |
| 6 | They had come home during the height of the disturbances to discover their teenage daughter being ravished by a young police officer . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've often seen it falling when I 've come home through a raid , from that Anti Aircraft gun . |
| 8 | A man has been raped by two other men as he was walking home through a town centre . |
| 9 | Paul Biddle squandered another chance for Milton on seventy one minutes as he put the ball wide from close range and then with ten minutes remaining , Fairmile offered themselves a glimmer of hope as Wayne Glossop fired home through a ruck of players . |
| 10 | He walked home through the quiet and at this hour deserted village . |
| 11 | I went home through the Park . |
| 12 | I went home through the field with the cows . |
| 13 | Calling me home , home through the fog . |
| 14 | The latest attack happened as the twenty seven year old woman was walking home through the centre of Oxford after a party in the early hours of Saturday morning . |
| 15 | Then , when he returned — which he always did , as quickly as possible , for Smugglers ' Cove ( and its occupant ) were so strong a magnet that he often drove home through the night — then she was unfailingly reassured . |
| 16 | As she drove back home through the traffic , memories of her father 's authoritarian presence , vigorously admonishing her for the sinfulness of some childlike request , filled her mind with pain and loathing . |
| 17 | As I trudge my way home through the city streets The cats and the houses retreat And a thunder of hooves beats in my mind And I gallop through acres of wheat . |
| 18 | Remembering always to carry her gas mask , stumbling home through the blackout with only a narrow beam of light from her torch to help her , and going to services in churches lit only by candles with a blackout curtain over the door . |
| 19 | It was quite a different situation when a grandchild came into the grandparent 's home through the death or desertion of one or both parents . |
| 20 | As he left that all-too-familiar graveyard and tramped home through the snow , Charles the Cheesemonger must have thought that the century was drawing to an unpropitious end indeed . |
| 21 | Thousands of new age travellers slip and slide their way home through the mud . |
| 22 | Hoomey thought back , and could not remember having them when he had run home through the rain . |
| 23 | Priestley had particular pleasure in recalling that moment in Payday in which Charlie has to walk home through the rain after foolishly spending his pay and after being pushed out of the last tram ; he anticipates his wife 's anger and the return to short rations and yet not all is hopeless , something might turn up . |
| 24 | Murray 's death bears similarities to a case two years ago when sixteen year old David Nock was stabbed to death as he jogged home through the town . |
| 25 | Byrnes began to retreat from his unilateral dealings with the USSR , especially when the limited agreements he had concluded in Moscow in December 1945 were sharply criticized back home as a return to appeasement . |
| 26 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 27 | The Evangelists proposed the concept of home as a private retreat for man , and home as a centre of morality , away from the rigours and corruption of the outside world . |
| 28 | ‘ The most nerve-wracking moment , ’ recalls Nicola Wright , ‘ was when we discovered the live First World War German mortar bomb , which cousin Charles had brought home as a souvenir . ’ |
| 29 | He played in ten Hampden finals and went home as a winner eight times . |
| 30 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |