Example sentences of "he [vb past] come home " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fell into the habit of feeding the boys early , and continued it even on nights when he did come home . |
| 2 | But then when he did come home much later in the evenings she was often brusque and cross with him . |
| 3 | It was just after he had come home in 1945 , with his raw imagination still straining to assimilate the only excitements of his life and the strange dust of Italy and Egypt still upon his boots . |
| 4 | He had come home , it was beginning to seem , in order to finally wrench himself away from all his father represented , and not only him but the even more hateful world of the van Goghs ; the art dealers , the bourgeoisie , polite society , ‘ them ’ . |
| 5 | He had come home late the previous evening from a tedious conference to find Sylvie in a strangely seductive mood , a champagne bottle at the ready , her favourite music pulsing through the house . |
| 6 | It was not the first time he had come home covered in blood . |
| 7 | And she was n't depending only on her instinct — yesterday he had come home too late to go to the Sabbath commencement service and looking very tired . |
| 8 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 9 | And McAllister remembered his silent distress when he had come home after losing a woman in childbirth not long after she had arrived in Vetch Street . |
| 10 | It was Scott who launched McWilliams on his Irish career after he had come home from England where he had made his start and Pat stayed with Scott for two and a half years before moving on . |
| 11 | He had come home on 30 March and , referring to Sutherland , had told her : ‘ That bastard had the cheek to lose the head with me because it did not work . |
| 12 | It was why he had come home |
| 13 | He had to come home in the ambulance , and had a bed downstairs for the daytime , but managed to go upstairs to bed at night . |
| 14 | Most of his friends were still on the loose while he had to come home eventually and he felt he was always answerable to ‘ the wife ’ . |
| 15 | He had to come home ! |