Example sentences of "home [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This bizarre characteristic did not disappear with the end of the war , for when I visited her home during a sugar shortage in the 1970s , I saw the dining-room mantelpiece piled high with two-pound bags — enough , surely , to satisfy the most desperate sweet-tooth for months , or even years , to come . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've often seen it falling when I 've come home through a raid , from that Anti Aircraft gun . |
| 3 | A man has been raped by two other men as he was walking home through a town centre . |
| 4 | Paul Biddle squandered another chance for Milton on seventy one minutes as he put the ball wide from close range and then with ten minutes remaining , Fairmile offered themselves a glimmer of hope as Wayne Glossop fired home through a ruck of players . |
| 5 | Byrnes began to retreat from his unilateral dealings with the USSR , especially when the limited agreements he had concluded in Moscow in December 1945 were sharply criticized back home as a return to appeasement . |
| 6 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 7 | The Evangelists proposed the concept of home as a private retreat for man , and home as a centre of morality , away from the rigours and corruption of the outside world . |
| 8 | ‘ The most nerve-wracking moment , ’ recalls Nicola Wright , ‘ was when we discovered the live First World War German mortar bomb , which cousin Charles had brought home as a souvenir . ’ |
| 9 | He played in ten Hampden finals and went home as a winner eight times . |
| 10 | This section covers additional accommodation and travel expenses incurred in reaching the overseas destination or returning home as a result of the failure of public transport services in getting the insured to his departure port or airport by the time stated in the itinerary . |
| 11 | Once again our Branch President has kindly offered her home as a venue . |
| 12 | Last night his daughter 's presents lay unopened in her bedroom inside the family 's £120,000 detached home as a string of callers delivered sympathy cards . |
| 13 | He worked his passage home as a steward and fetched up at Tilbury with £30 wages , which was soon augmented by £46 10s left to him in his absence by his grandfather . |
| 14 | He came home as a passenger in the tractor of another driver who brought his trailer home . |
| 15 | Mugabe gave the Comrade the opportunity to fulfil one of his long-held ambitions as Romania 's Great White Hunter — to shoot one of Zimbabwe 's increasingly rare elephants and to take the tusks home as a trophy . |
| 16 | Ten-year-old Luke Johnson dug it up and thinking it was ‘ dead ’ , planned to take it home as an ornament . |
| 17 | He had been so proud and happy to be returning to his family with the news of his impending marriage , yet now he was leaving home as an outcast . |
| 18 | Totten pounced on Dermot McCaul 's poor overhead clearance to crash the ball home off a post and lift the siege on his own goal which had led a charmed life . |
| 19 | ‘ Would you like to come home for a drink ? |
| 20 | ‘ Then get home for a couple of hours . |
| 21 | He just said he was thinking of coming home for a couple of days , if that was all right . |
| 22 | ‘ I think I 'll go home for a couple of hours then come back later , ’ replied Nina , standing up and draining her mug . |
| 23 | Once or twice a year I would go home for a weekend to see my mother . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When he finished he went home for a rest . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The novel life abroad made Frances disenchanted with Britain when she returned home for a spell : |
| 29 | I need you back home for a spell . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |