Example sentences of "at home [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competitively , the Irish have n't been beaten at home under the current manager . |
| 2 | I pledge to use ten per cent less gas and/or electricity at home during the next year . |
| 3 | LEFT : At home with the new girl in his life . |
| 4 | Stravinsky was never at home with the warm homogeneity of the string quartet . |
| 5 | Since , due to familiarity , we are more at home with the second notation than the first we shall adopt it for all binary operations . |
| 6 | I 'm a 27 year old male on kidney dialysis and am looking for a computer to use at home with the long-term objective of working in computer programming . |
| 7 | The Left identified the struggle against the National government at home with the world-wide struggle between Fascism and the Left : they saw the Soviet Union as the heart of the " progressive forces " and the Left at home as its loyal support . |
| 8 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 9 | He is completely at home with the English language and our literature and humour . |
| 10 | I 'd woken up the next morning at Aisha 's place , not convinced that I was really in London : her flat was like any flat at home with the same smell , the same coloured ottomans and rugs , the same pictures on the walls , the brass tray in the middle of the room , and the loud shrieks and wails of her two children puncturing the air . |
| 11 | Maureen O'Hara , of the Children 's Legal Centre , said : ‘ Local authorities have to accept that if they 've made every effort to keep children at home with the non-abusing parent and it does n't work , they may have to be taken into care . ’ |
| 12 | Lord Derby , who steered the Act through Parliament , would have felt quite at home with the parliamentary debate which took place after the 1952 smog some 90 years later . |
| 13 | Horse and Jockey AC match secretary Mick Dryers had an unusual Sunday morning — he spent it at home for the first time in two years . |
| 14 | Cove lost at home for the first time in 13 games , going down 3–1 to Epsom & Ewell . |
| 15 | Dedicated Wyn has now astounded doctors by bringing Norman to live back at home for the first time in three-and-a-half years . |
| 16 | After fifteen months Edward left St. Paul 's on the tacit understanding that he would read at home for the competitive administration examinations of the Civil Service . |
| 17 | One is a brief account of the birth at home of the sixth son , Julian : the others refer to her active role as intermediary between the sons and the father . |
| 18 | So I made myself at home at the Golden Turk ; the two-faced landlord greeted me civilly enough , providing a chamber on the second floor with a pallet bed and a few sticks of furniture . |
| 19 | He will be more at home at the new Ministry of Fun . |
| 20 | It was obvious that Matthew would have been more at home at the little desk by the window , where there was only a kitchen chair to sit on . |
| 21 | If we are at home at the same time , we are usually both asleep . ’ |
| 22 | Luckily the 1991 YZR500 is only slightly changed from its 1990 specification and Ruggia quickly felt at home on the new machine . |
| 23 | The man who is more at home on the classical stage is getting to pay a tribute to his idol at the Ulster Hall . |
| 24 | There were still the horses to do , and they would have trouble at home about the missing school clothes , needed tomorrow . |
| 25 | He was at his best and most at home in the primary sector . |
| 26 | The Roman Emperor Antonine , while he would have looked in vain for the wall he built across Scotland 2,000 years before , would have been quite at home in the vast amphitheatre of Celtic Park . |
| 27 | This spadefoot toad is at home in the dry desert lands of North America . |
| 28 | He was equally at home in the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art , keen in discerning what was good in the arts of many ages and styles . |
| 29 | I saw the last few minutes of the game when I got back from the pub last night and was amazed to hear some commentator say ‘ Manchester United have n't lost at home in the European Cup for 37 years ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ We have lost only twice at home in the Second Division . |