Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theological answer is that He feels at home anywhere because He is at home everywhere . |
| 2 | He seems to have enjoyed greater success with the public than he did at home , however . |
| 3 | He should have gone away to prep school at eight , but Claudia did n't want him to feel rejected just because there was a baby half-sister , so he stayed at home . |
| 4 | One director used him in Waiting for Godot , and he felt at home in a straight play at last , but unfortunately a critic wrote four hundred words about the Christly nature of the moment when he took his hat off . |
| 5 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , but he stays at home and never sees anybody , Mr Holmes ! ’ answered Helen Stoner . |
| 7 | Mr Szuluk was refused a clothing grant from the Department of Social Security , which said that because he lived at home with his parents , he was n't a priority case . |
| 8 | What will happen on Saturday is that the other half and kids will be banished to the shops , while he stays at home to watch the match in silence . |
| 9 | ‘ My husband was made redundant and I went out to work while he stayed at home to do the chores . |
| 10 | When he cooks at home on a daily basis , his new kitchen has another purpose too . |
| 11 | And as he recovered at home , he opened up about the moment he thought his season was over . |
| 12 | Now , as he sits at home with his wife and children in their suburban house in Ealing , the revisionists are wandering the streets . |
| 13 | Perhaps he do n't moan as much there as he does at home ! |
| 14 | Someone employed on the Census in April was forced to resign after trying to sell life insurance as he called at homes in London to collect people 's forms ! |
| 15 | She had a vision of John sitting hunched up in his chair , as he did at home sometimes when things were going wrong , all dark and gaunt and unhappy . |