Example sentences of "[vb infin] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he owed it to his brother and his own people to go warn and prepare them ; also he hoped that some of his retainers and tenants , from whom he had been detached since Berwick , might have survived Halidon and would win home . |
| 2 | Ireland assistant coach Gerry Murphy says that a realistic aim for this 1992–93 season is to try and win home matches or at least make it extremely difficult for an opposition team to win at Lansdowne Road . |
| 3 | Instead of blaming one partner we should drum home the essential message that parents have equal responsibilities . |
| 4 | To help them identify the danger signs an information booklet will be made available and press ads will drum home the message . |
| 5 | I do n't care if they 're hallucinating purple snakes and blue baboons , because the whole point of putting them on a boat is that they ca n't get off and swim home , and they ca n't get drugs on board , and they ca n't bribe you to take them to land , and that means they 'll have no damned choice but to get cured . ’ |
| 6 | Campbell was on the spot to gratefully ram home the rebound . |
| 7 | Clearly , there are limits to critical self-consciousness : it makes the book limp home . |
| 8 | We did land home eventually but I think Mrs Thwaites 's folks were understandably worried , wondering where we had got to . |
| 9 | We hope the leaflet we are sending out to our motor policyholders will bring home to them the fact that most cars can be converted both simply and cheaply . ’ |
| 10 | The birth of a son was welcomed now for traditional reasons ( for example , among Hindus the son plays an essential part in the cremation ceremony ) and because he would bring home a vast dowry when he married , but no longer so much because he would be a new worker for the joint family . |
| 11 | Although prosecution followed by a fine can bring home to parents the reality of their child 's non-attendance problem , a financial penalty is likely to be inappropriate when imposed on what is often a poor family whose financial problems are already one of the factors threatening family stability . |
| 12 | In addition , they can perhaps bring home to the community just how much education needs and deserves better funding . |
| 13 | Or a cat will bring home a live mouse to teach her kittens how to catch it . |
| 14 | What 's more , you can bring home a larger allowance than if you buy duty-free — usually half as much again . |
| 15 | As well as all the usual allowances , you can bring home £265-worth of other goods from EC countries £32-worth from elsewhere . |
| 16 | However , on mother 's birthday which fell on 24th May , father would always bring home for her a bunch of lilies of the valley . |
| 17 | What the sojourn with Blackheath and Kent did bring home to Gordon Hamilton was the tendency , even those few years ago , of the Irish selection committees to ignore overseas talent . |
| 18 | Even if , to the youth , ‘ living was more important than education ’ , engaging in competitive sport can bring home the new realization that achieving results in education can be important to living . |
| 19 | Taken to extremes , a Bonsai pine , cherry or plum can embrace many more elements than a mere dwarfed tree might at first suggest to the Westerner : antiquity , continuity ( the best examples have been cared for by successive generations ) , and symbolic qualities that only a study of Zen can fully bring home . |
| 20 | The commander of an East Indiamen might bring home with him 38 tons of cargo , his chief mate was allowed eight tons , the second officer six tons , and the remaining officers in decreasing proportion , but for all of them it was an important part of their remuneration . |
| 21 | These examples should bring home the great difference that there is for Moore between intrinsic good and bad and anything of the nature of pleasure or pain . |
| 22 | She wished he could be charged because he thinks it might bring home to him the seriousness of what he has done and scare him enough to stop . |
| 23 | One day Penelope would bring home a Tibetan holy man , another time the entire Black Panther party . |
| 24 | It 's no good thinking you 'll bring home this gorgeous kid and everything will be fine , because it is n't . ’ |
| 25 | Because she had spent so much of her teenage by herself , she had found plenty of time to read the newspapers and the books Patsy would bring home from school , or take out for her from the school library . |
| 26 | Rumour had it that , particularly towards the end of the financial year when sales targets were a few thousand off and hopes of bonuses were beginning to fade , the sound of the office globe could be heard spinning as anxious sales staff searched the world for the magic market that would bring home the bacon . |
| 27 | The abrupt transition from 1963 London to the Paleolithic era would emphasise the Doctor 's time-travelling capabilities , while the sub-plot of making fire , crucial to the narrative , would bring home to the audience the key to the human race 's survival made by its ‘ discovery ’ . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 29 | Do n't let your kids bring home pirated games software to load onto your machine . |
| 30 | A fortnight with her parents , he was thinking now , on their many acres of damp earth , must surely bring home to her the advantages of living on Lord Jim . |