Example sentences of "[verb] home to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |
| 2 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 3 | Mrs Stych wrung her hands behind the reporter 's back , and wished passionately she could run home to Mother on the pig farm ; she longed suddenly for the smell of hens and milk , for a place where nobody had to keep up appearances or be other than what they were . |
| 4 | He spent much of his childhood in China but returned home to school at Marlborough . |
| 5 | He was subsequently invited home to dinner by the Daltons . |
| 6 | So if you 're planning on running home to Mummy before tomorrow morning , you 'll have to phone Daddy to call for you , or take a taxi . " |
| 7 | You testify before the Commission tomorrow and I take the kids and go home to Mother in Milwaukee ! ’ |
| 8 | She would imagine calling him up to her room every night before he went home to bed with a man , and taking her silver hairbrush from her desk and brushing his hair out like a daughter 's , one hundred strokes every night . |
| 9 | We all went home to lunch in good spirits , and the ‘ open-door schooling ’ , far from being a chore , was a pleasant outing . |
| 10 | When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food . |
| 11 | There was a need for vigilance of the type in which Collins specialises , since the Germans had restarted the match apparently intent on finishing it as a contest in time for the largely youthful audience at Ibrox to get home to bed at a respectable hour . |