Example sentences of "had [verb] home [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister had come over with her family from the next valley and was standing just behind him ; Shaun had flown home as well , a taller , broader Wayne-that-might-have-been , but he had n't yet come out of the church . |
| 2 | and she had to go home before it finished . |
| 3 | But Scarlet said she had to go home and see what was happening . |
| 4 | Dexter levered himself up from the chair , his eyelids leaden with sleep , and murmured that he had to go home and rest . |
| 5 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
| 6 | I had to come home and tell you immediately . |
| 7 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 8 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
| 9 | Haverford had got home after the children had gone to bed , earning Molly 's frowns for slamming the car door , shouting good-night to Fosdyke and singing ‘ Lydia , the tattooed lady ’ all the way upstairs . |
| 10 | So she had to walk home and he walked home ! |
| 11 | One night I stopped on a bit at the dance in Cotherstone and had to walk home because I could n't get a lift from anyone . |
| 12 | Over the last months , she had realized that she had to leave home or something terrible would happen . |
| 13 | The thought that this slave had known home and care , perhaps even love , came as a sudden shock to Jess . |
| 14 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 15 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
| 16 | By now I think mum and dad had gone home but they 'd rang Ian and he 'd come straight to the hospital and sat with me . |
| 17 | It was after nine-thirty when we finished , because I remember that Mrs Reynolds had gone home and I washed up the cups myself . ’ |
| 18 | Although this caused some small problem because the manager had gone home and taken his office key with him , a duplicate was soon found and Duncan let into the sparse office . |
| 19 | The night was drawing in and the kids had gone home and the tunnel under the embankment was deep in shadow . |
| 20 | That night , in Stephanie 's house , Marcus dreamed he had gone home and Bill was carving a meal to welcome him . |
| 21 | When he went through the back door he discovered the printers had gone home and thought at first no one was there . |
| 22 | A good example occurred in 827 – 8 : a noble from the Spanish March , disappointed at the palace , had gone home and allied with the Muslim amir of Cordoba to pursue local claims against Count Bernard of Barcelona . |
| 23 | They had gone home and told their parents . |
| 24 | cos the main environmental was er , it did it on its own , with a completely empty switchboard , no calls on five o'clock at night , everybody had gone home and the bloody thing would just sit ringing , ringing , ringing , ringing and erm |
| 25 | The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father . |
| 26 | His mother , he would say , had left home after such a humiliation , taking the three children on what had proved a pilgrimage of terror ; he thanked God he had been nine years old and able to run off and fend for himself . |
| 27 | She could only tell me that Wesley 's father had left home when he was about six years old , that his mother had remarried and the boy now lived with her and his stepfather . |
| 28 | It was not long before she had left home and was on the road . |
| 29 | She had left home and was refusing to return because of the ‘ weird things ’ that were going on . |
| 30 | Frankie had left home and was now living in lodgings in a little backstreet near the pub they were sitting in . |