Example sentences of "go home [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh we used to shake our hands , we did n't use to go home complaining . |
| 2 | He wrote her a brief note merely saying he had had to go home owing to illness and had found , on his return , that he was to report forthwith to the War Office . |
| 3 | You would think that Ipswich came to United to be happy going home losing only 2–0 . |
| 4 | Maggie had stayed quiet , gone home thinking if you think you 're oppressed mate then listen to this . |
| 5 | I wondered if he had gone home feeling anything but relief . |
| 6 | The house model had gone home feeling sick and there were customer appointments . |
| 7 | You go home cursing chemistry . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh sure — go home looking like this . ’ |
| 9 | Americans fly in , have a shilling camel ride and go home saying they 've done the Sahara . ’ |
| 10 | If your aim each day is to do your best then every day can be a success because you can always go home knowing that you HAVE done your best ( whatever marks you got for it ) . |
| 11 | ‘ I think everyone connected with the club can go home knowing that they have done their best . |
| 12 | It was only natural that we should interpret all this as preparation for release , that we would go home looking fit and not too pale . |
| 13 | And we 'd all go home talking like them and our mothers complained ! |
| 14 | I do n't wan na cuss you I 'll end up getting you vexed and you 'll go home crying to your Mum . |
| 15 | However , four goals in the last 23 minutes quietened the boos and whistles from a crowd which arrived with great expectations and feared they would go home asking for more , much more . |
| 16 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 17 | The evening ended with a Pirate Play and I went home thinking what a wonderful concert , as it probably was for an elementary school having no spare cash . |
| 18 | Sadly , the Irish went home bearing bruises and a rather unfortunate playing record . |
| 19 | He laid out a fiver — and went home counting the cash after Dowie scored twice . |
| 20 | When Ivan went home clutching Sylvie 's address in his hand , Sylvie left too . |
| 21 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 22 | I went home sulking and was still in a mood when Frankie returned . |
| 23 | We all went home having had little but fruit , cheese and Texas-size shrimps for three days , but it was delicious , convenient and appealing , and there was plenty of it . |
| 24 | One woman walked for an hour through the snow to catch the bus to Skipton , waited for three and a half hours to meet Hannah , and still went home smiling . |
| 25 | Everyone in the stand went home saying the same thing — I 'd have got that one . |
| 26 | I went home feeling miserable and ashamed for being such a fool but I did n't have long to indulge my self-pity , for when I entered our house I found my brother Jack and Mum quarrelling loudly . |
| 27 | The night that he said no to my offer of a drink I went home feeling really down . |
| 28 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 29 | No unpleasantness seems to have been caused , but in one instance the opposition went home giving their names for the records . |