Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she woke up , she found she was at home with him at last . ’ |
| 2 | An alleged hitman accused of pushing a young couple over a cliff in a burning car has claimed he was at home smoking drugs at the time . |
| 3 | ‘ I hope someone 's at home videoing it for him . ’ |
| 4 | Imagine you 're at home and you 're not going back to that madhouse . |
| 5 | I imagine he was at home with his highly attractive wife . ’ |
| 6 | He was told she was at home . |
| 7 | The old woman 's gone — I spect she 's at home now . |
| 8 | ‘ Let's hope she 's at home . ’ |
| 9 | He found himself wishing he was at home again , at Polly 's home , and could creep stealthily into the twins ' room and sit there as he sometimes had at night , on the floor among their discarded toys and cuddly animals , with his back to the wall , listening to the sound of their breathing . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , see , we know what 's at home . |
| 11 | We just know what 's at home . |
| 12 | I suppose we 're at home today . |
| 13 | They can tell who is at home and who is out at work . |
| 14 | You could generally tell who was at home by glancing at the sandals . |
| 15 | However , each time we called she would n't answer the door although we could see the curtain move so we knew she was at home . |
| 16 | I thought you were at home , and the demoiselle also. , |
| 17 | Claire said , ‘ They were open , that 's why I thought she was at home . ’ |
| 18 | " When she did n't come home on Friday night , " she said , " her parents thought she was staying with her boyfriend and the boyfriend thought she was at home with her parents . " |
| 19 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 20 | I wake up and for a moment I think I 'm at home or at Caroline 's . |
| 21 | ‘ No-one in Britain knows we 're here , ’ says Jim Bob , ‘ they think we 're at home counting our money . ’ |
| 22 | I said to Julie about the washing I said to Julie I said you 're at home how about you taking this washing machine with you when you go because you 're paying . |
| 23 | She wished she was at home in bed ! |
| 24 | Hospitality is the art of making people feel at home when you wish they were at home |
| 25 | She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty . |
| 26 | White said he was at home smoking drugs when the attack took place . |
| 27 | But Young and Smyth denied knowing anything about the attack or the woman 's death , and the court heard that Young , a self-confessed drug addict , said he was at home suffering from withdrawal symptoms on the day of the mugging . |
| 28 | For a moment , he almost wished he were at home , but then he shook his head as if to rid himself of the thought . |
| 29 | There is one place where I can say I am at home , where I can live in peace and quiet with my most beloved father and my dearest sister , where I can do as I like , where apart from the duties of my appointment I am my own master , and where I have a permanent income and yet can go off when I like , and travel every second year … |
| 30 | When asked about the ‘ meaning ’ of his Foundation cycle , he was apt to burst into a song which he had adapted from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera , Patience : ‘ Success is not a mystery , just brush up on your history , and borrow day by day/ Take an Empire that was Roman , and you 'll find it is at home in/ All the starry Milky Way . ’ |