Example sentences of "home [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I relived the murder as I walked back home through the streets .
2 From what I later found out , it was apparent that if we were not sent home it may have become increasingly difficult to transport those pupils who travelled on coaches home through the floods which had been gradually rising , mainly due to the River Deben bursting its banks and so flooding the nearby villages .
3 If we 're to go home through the fields by the shore — what did you call-them , Meg ? ’
4 Making a flying visit home between the Breeders ' Cup in Florida last weekend and resuming his contract job in Hong Kong , he cemented his eighth championship at the expense of arch-rival Christy Roche .
5 She goes to boarding school in Sanderstown , but , ’ with a smile , ‘ always seems to be coming home for the holidays .
6 But you see , you 'll come home for the holidays , Easter and Christmas ; and they have holidays in the summer an' all , do n't they , Aggie ? ’
7 I did n't answer the letter , but just counted the days and the hours until he would be home for the holidays ; they seemed interminable .
8 ‘ Do you think his parents are going to be happy when he comes home for the holidays with a scar the length of his face ? ’
9 He used to stay at his club during the week , and go home for the weekends . ’
10 And then you could go on going home for the vacations .
11 At the Royal Infirmary my desperate prayer was to be home for the boys ' Easter holidays from school — and I was home .
12 There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen .
13 This is a a rest home for the nuns .
14 And he knew I did n't have to be home for the kids or whatever , he knew my circumstances so well and he knew th exactly how much he could use me you know .
15 Home for the kings of Northumberland and the first English castle ever to be damaged by gunfire .
16 She thought Gloria and Seb would come straight home after the films , but Gloria was already there .
17 But if the youngster follows normal patterns he will return home after the tests to await the selection of the donor and final preparations for the NHS hospital procedure .
18 But if the youngster follows normal patterns he will return home after the tests to await the selection of the donor and final preparations for the NHS hospital procedure .
19 There was a lot of ‘ this dear , dear land of ours ’ , of ‘ the level evening sun over an English meadow ’ , of ‘ the rooks tumbling noisily home into the elms ’ , but there was also a good ringing pledge in which the ambiguity , although present , was neither obvious nor too clever by half .
20 She would have to go and make sure that everything was all right — and that meant goodbye to walking home along the sands .
21 A colony of bats has set up home along the banks of the River Thames .
22 The Dodger and Charley Bates went out to work every day , but sometimes came home with no handkerchieves , and Fagin would get very angry .
23 We were glad to know that the little boy was allowed to ride home with the others .
24 She always came home with the others at night , preferring the protection of being in a group .
25 THERE 'S A nice little guitar strum courtesy of Kurt Cobain , then David Grohl hits home with the sticks , Chris Novoselic 's bass grinds in and before you know it you 're powerless against the euphoria of one of the year 's truly excellent songs ; ‘ Smells Like Teen Spirit ’ .
26 Michael Stoute , who trained one of last season 's toughest horses , Rock Hopper , has found a worthy successor in Saddlers ' Hall , who romped home with the Lanes End John Porter Stakes .
27 ‘ Elinor , you go home with the papers .
28 ‘ Ah — your wife had to go out , so you had to stay home with the children ? ’
29 Then the Missus went out , and I stayed home with the kids .
30 He talked about Fitzroy , the naval officer who had carried out the first detailed survey of the waters we were looking down on , and of Darwin , who had joined Fitzroy in the Beagle for a second voyage in which the survey had been completed , followed by the long voyage home via the Galapagos and other islands , including New Zealand .
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