Example sentences of "home when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense . |
| 2 | The upsurgence of the motor car was forcibly rammed home when the cross-country holiday route , the Midland & Great Northern Joint line from Peterborough across Norfolk to Great Yarmouth Beach station was shut on 28 February 1959 . |
| 3 | The association is pressed home when the action resumes . |
| 4 | And we wo n't go home when it rains |
| 5 | Fieldhouse drives the point home when he argues that ‘ between 1945 and 1951 Britain exploited those dependencies that were politically unable to defend their own interests in more ways and with more serious consequences than at any time since overseas colonies were established ’ . |
| 6 | Australia , who had set Sri Lanka 522 to win after declaring their second innings at 513 for five , appeared to be coasting home when they took three wickets before lunch to reduce the touring side to 208 for six . |
| 7 | One doctor was being driven home when he suddenly said : ‘ Stop the car and let me out ’ , at which he leapt out and ran off down the road into the dark . |
| 8 | She was a little girl who lived across from Ali 's old Louisville home when he was at the top . |
| 9 | Having dined ‘ not wisely , but too well ’ on one of Georgina 's extra-special Sunday lunches , they were relaxing in the garden of their Buckinghamshire home when Mark broke the news . |
| 10 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 11 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 12 | They were just about to go home when they found you . ’ |
| 13 | I thought I would go home when I left but it has been a long time . |
| 14 | A year and a half earlier , she had lost her previous camp home when a shell fired from the Israeli-armed Lebanese Christian enclave to the south hit the roof . |
| 15 | At unbenched shows , you may take your dog home when you have finished in the ring . |
| 16 | At the age of fifteen Ken ran away to California from his Texas home when his parents locked up his surfboard . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , dear , but come home when they do , ’ replied Mrs. Pringle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I remember the pleasure it gave a handful of guests at the Dilworth home when Ira and Arthur gave us their four-hand version of Bach 's chorale ‘ Where Sheep May Safely Graze ’ . |
| 20 | He was Scotland 's first official pop star , a Black Watch Beatle used to crawling home when the dancing turned out . |
| 21 | On 11 April 1986 Minnie Keenan was listening to the radio in her east Belfast home when she heard the news that her son Brian had been taken hostage in Beirut . |
| 22 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 23 | Reality strikes home when the learner arrives on the ward to find it overcrowded with beds , chairs , trolleys and even patients . |
| 24 | There is also possible loss of all forms of maintenance once the children have grown up , and no legal entitlement to the family home when they have finished full time education . |
| 25 | You can come home when you 've finished . ’ |
| 26 | Or , if they had difficulty leaving home when they were young , they may unconsciously place obstacles in the way of their own children doing so when the time comes . |
| 27 | The friend of the England skipper told TODAY : ‘ Graham originally planned to finish the tour and then quietly move out of the family home when he returned . ’ |
| 28 | David Buckley , 29 , was giving a friend a lift home when his car clipped the kerb , somersaulted 15ft into the air and smashed through the top of a lamp-post . |
| 29 | Prince Charles 's remarks also hit home when they were repeated to Ceauşescu himself . |
| 30 | Young Paul happened to be home when she mentioned it , and looked up over his spectacles . |