Example sentences of "she [vb past] at home " in BNC.

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1 She does seem to be heavier than she was when she lived at home , and she has dyed her hair blonde recently .
2 The coffee smelt and tasted rich , quite unlike the freeze-dried brand she used at home .
3 Six months after their honeymoon , she arrived at home , a cripple and a mother .
4 She worked at home , she used to make er bags , you know , er shopping bags , and she was a very good machinist and a remarkable cook and everything .
5 From 1893 onwards she worked at home , first in a laboratory built in the grounds of her mother 's house in Reigate , and later at her home in Girton village , Cambridge .
6 She died at home in Gomshall , Surrey , 11 March 1954 .
7 Appeased by the silence , Lydia went on : ‘ She looked at home in the graveyard .
8 Their basement apartment cost more than she could afford , but at least she felt at home in Chelsea .
9 Would she hit him in public as she did at home ?
10 ‘ The doctors are tremendously impressed with his fitness and health , so I do n't think we have seen the last of him , ’ she said at home in Newmarket yesterday .
11 She said at home in Garnant , Dyfed : ‘ I hope Saddam gets my letter . ’
12 There was also the story , this time true , that she had splashed out $250,000 on a luxury home in the suburbs of her native Melbourne , only to rent it out while she stayed at home with her beloved parents .
13 The travelling , the exigencies of the business , the constant promotional activity , prolonged absences , his own mercurial nature , made life difficult for Susy if she stayed at home and not much better if she accompanied James on the circuit , something she never much liked to do .
14 She stayed at home , weeping intermittently but never again with the same passion and desperation of that first outburst .
15 The other four nights she stayed at home , studying , since she was a student at the same Polytechnic that was educating Sarah Fleming and Sergeant Jones 's son , but she knew neither of them as she was a year older and taking different subjects .
16 On Wednesdays , to please Aunt Emily , she stayed at home to receive callers .
17 She stayed at home and looked after her children doing some part-time work whenever she could .
18 Everybody else was in France , and she was afraid that if she stayed at home she might fall in love with some disabled veteran and marry him .
19 Each person referred , even if he or she remained at home , was allocated to either the community psychiatric nurse or the social worker ( as key worker ) ; their case was reviewed by the team every six weeks , and was never closed , except by death or removal from the area .
20 There she was , ably supported by active and intelligent people while she sat at home feeling cold and tired and guilty .
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