Example sentences of "home for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you like to come home for a drink ? |
| 2 | ‘ Then get home for a couple of hours . |
| 3 | He just said he was thinking of coming home for a couple of days , if that was all right . |
| 4 | ‘ I think I 'll go home for a couple of hours then come back later , ’ replied Nina , standing up and draining her mug . |
| 5 | Once or twice a year I would go home for a weekend to see my mother . |
| 6 | When the first Crusaders trudged home for a rest from rape and pillage , they brought with them unknown spices which imparted such wondrous new and strong flavours that the absence of meat could go unnoticed . |
| 7 | Kurt , however , was remarkably animate , clearly happy it was all over , and talked enthusiastically about how much he 'd enjoyed touring with Shonen Knife and was now just looking forward to going home for a rest . |
| 8 | When he finished he went home for a rest . |
| 9 | W. P. With kids , I used to carry my gloves in my hand and without any fingers in , and I used to catch them with the gloves if they were cheeky , and if they got cheekier still , I used to take them home for a belt . |
| 10 | The novel life abroad made Frances disenchanted with Britain when she returned home for a spell : |
| 11 | I need you back home for a spell . ’ |
| 12 | Because New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives , shows would close for a couple of months when the Girls would be sent home for a holiday on half pay , which was better than the average salary in Britain . |
| 13 | After four years of service they could return home for a holiday with the family or bring out their wives and children , providing they had found accommodation for them . |
| 14 | I often feel like I could pack up and go home for a holiday in Ireland . |
| 15 | Miss Lee is at Nwanza , in Tanzania , with the Church Mission Society and will come home for a holiday in Britain next year . |
| 16 | Nothing much was doing , though , and eventually I went home for a bite to eat and a well-deserved kip . |
| 17 | I was n't even tempted , until Darren came home for a while and started having a lot of fits . |
| 18 | DAD SELLS HOME FOR A HEART OP |
| 19 | Lady Paignton , too , found various jobs for the girls , as Mrs Dare had prophesied , and when her son Tony came home for a fortnight , things began to hum in another direction . |
| 20 | " I 'm going home for a fortnight . |
| 21 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 22 | To avoid seeing Mr Boldwood , Bathsheba herself arranged to visit Liddy at her sister 's home for a day or two . |
| 23 | Just over a third , 35 per cent , of those who had lived in an old people 's home for a year or more had had help from a nurse who visited the home in the year before they died . |
| 24 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 25 | She invited him home for a coffee and he set about trying to find out what was wrong with her washing machine . |
| 26 | I went home for a week at the end of July , just in time to see the beginning of this new menace , the V1 buzz bombs and I have to say they completely terrified me . |
| 27 | There are weekly visits , once a month the inmate is given a weekend leave , and once every six months is allowed home for a week . |
| 28 | They are home for a week or a month ; the rest of the time they are wandering about the world . |
| 29 | home for a week . |
| 30 | BOXER Michael Watson has gone home for a family Christmas to help with his recovery . |