Example sentences of "[verb] up at home [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but anyway , erm , it came as a bit of a shock to me when who was at that time the Horticultural Adviser or Horticultural Organiser as they used to call him , turned up at home at Debenham where we lived at the time and er said he 'd come to collect my typewriter we had no notice of this anyway was erm a jolly old soul and erm he went off with my typewriter and erm shorthand machine and the next day my father brought me into Ipswich and erm , well I saw and did a bit of typing and erm , that 's how it all started . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 3 | ‘ It is common for parents with jobs to leave their children locked up at home with TV Globo as their only companion . ’ |
| 4 | Brought up at home by his mother by means of fingerspelling and signs until he was thirteen , George completed his education in an ordinary school without being able to hear what went on . |
| 5 | The temptation for the rich nations will be to avoid or limit them by deferring expenditures on pre-emptive measures which will add up at home to taxes , higher energy costs and technology transfers to poor countries striving to compete with the donors . |