Example sentences of "them home " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it can scarcely be in doubt that these books have in them home truths , and an ironic obliquity or duplicity , which richly relate to the world of Jaruzelski 's predecessors , and indeed to the experience of other countries where literature and opinion have been repressed . |
| 2 | ‘ Send them home ! |
| 3 | The next day they found the courage to collect Lizzie 's ashes and bring them home . |
| 4 | He takes them home . |
| 5 | The Polish government has promised not to send them home , but no deal has been reached for their resettlement . |
| 6 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 7 | But if they came more than once their friends usually sent them home . |
| 8 | The vehicles started to move off to the washdown point and thence to the trains that would take them home . |
| 9 | This is picture-by-picture finance , depending on such chancy things as the tastes of producers and directors , or a type of story in vogue at the moment ( a spy boom brings filmmakers to Europe ; a Western boom could drive them home ) . |
| 10 | Doctors could find nothing wrong , and sent them home . |
| 11 | Aid workers , the only independent sources of information who have direct access to the camp inmates , say that fears about deportation are creating a tense atmosphere and that the Vietnamese are making preparations to avoid and resist attempts to send them home . |
| 12 | It was a perfectly good declaration , but before long the older spectators were recalling Headingley 1948 , when Yardley set Australia over 400 to win and Morris and Bradman saw them home . |
| 13 | Ask them home to tea . |
| 14 | It was known , also , that the old lady had been friendly with his mother ; and anyway , being a bachelor and retired , he could usually be counted on to take sufferers to hospital in emergency , or bring them home ; as well as visiting murderers in prison , and other tasks ( often called do-gooding by people who have never been remotely in need of that particular little world ) . |
| 15 | Tripoli was reported quiet yesterday , seemingly proving that Col Gaddafi is able to bring out the crowds and send them home at will . |
| 16 | Early that evening when John and Laura boarded the train to take them home to Glasgow , Maggie was with them . |
| 17 | The best way to support these young men and women is to bring them home alive . |
| 18 | There 's always a girl of good breeding to marry and a wise old servant to welcome them home and run them a bath on page 342 . |
| 19 | ‘ I must guide them home — somehow ! ’ murmured Carol . |
| 20 | They also sorted out financial problems , tried to get clients to wash or change their clothes or bedlinen , or brought them home when they wandered away . |
| 21 | Soon after Celtic 's European Cup success he was forced to send them home from a pre-season American tour when their behaviour failed to meet his standards . |
| 22 | In the attempt to provide good influences , officers were advised to cultivate personal contacts : to become friends with the boys , to invite them home for tea and to visit their homes ; they were to encourage their charges to have confidence in them and never to break faith ; above all , they were told , never ‘ miss an opportunity of strengthening your hold over them ’ . |
| 23 | He always found room for a long line of sweet peas ; it gave him immense pleasure to pick an armful of these , take them home , present them to Mum and fill the house with their glorious scent . |
| 24 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 25 | Take them home , get rid of them . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The older person should be treated with respect and should feel free to keep up with friends and have them home . |
| 28 | And he drove them home all the way , presumably with the help of his dogs . |
| 29 | When you 've bought chilled or frozen foods , get them home quickly . |
| 30 | At the checkout , pack frozen and chilled foods together , ideally in a cool-bag , and take them home quickly . |