Example sentences of "went home [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was , as a newly arrived curate , somewhat taken aback and went home to lick my wounds . |
| 2 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 3 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 4 | I put him back in his stable again , complete with an enormous amount of bandaging and went home to wait for my vet to phone with the results of the x-rays . |
| 5 | Instead of pushing on to Normandy to muster an army and then return to Maine in force , he switched direction and went home to die . |
| 6 | As independence approached , all the Namibian students on these courses went home to take part in the election process . |
| 7 | She went home to lie down . |
| 8 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 9 | The little goblin , who was terribly afraid of what the king of the vookodlaks would do to him if Yanek went home to look after his grandfather , gave him a great push . |
| 10 | As we sat there , Dad went home to end our lives together . |
| 11 | Women gave up their jobs in droves and went home to have children in hordes . |
| 12 | Afterwards , he went home to have dinner and a wash and shave before returning to Central Strike Headquarters at 7.00 p.m . |
| 13 | The dress rehearsal finally ended at four in the afternoon and everyone went home to rest . |
| 14 | About 4 am things quietened down , and we went home to get a spot of sleep . |
| 15 | Early in the evening she went home to get her brown envelope . |
| 16 | Women did their shopping , gossiped , then went home to prepare the Sunday meals for their families . |
| 17 | She was married for three months to poor old Louis before he collapsed and died of exhaustion and Mary went home to marry the love of her life , Charles Brandon , Duke of Suffolk . |