Example sentences of "went home [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made so much money , he went home grumblin' about someone fiddlin' his profits . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was , as a newly arrived curate , somewhat taken aback and went home to lick my wounds . |
| 4 | A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune . |
| 5 | Sadly , the Irish went home bearing bruises and a rather unfortunate playing record . |
| 6 | He was not so simple as to believe that the danger would be over when Aldhelm went home frustrated , but what followed he would have to encounter and parry when it came . |
| 7 | He , however , refused to fight back and just kept on doing his best ( even though he often went home upset ) . |
| 8 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 9 | He laid out a fiver — and went home counting the cash after Dowie scored twice . |
| 10 | When Ivan went home clutching Sylvie 's address in his hand , Sylvie left too . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | During his 18-month ordeal Ryan regularly went home covered in cigarette burns and bruises . |
| 15 | As independence approached , all the Namibian students on these courses went home to take part in the election process . |
| 16 | She went home to lie down . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I went home sulking and was still in a mood when Frankie returned . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As we sat there , Dad went home to end our lives together . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Women gave up their jobs in droves and went home to have children in hordes . |
| 23 | Afterwards , he went home to have dinner and a wash and shave before returning to Central Strike Headquarters at 7.00 p.m . |
| 24 | The dress rehearsal finally ended at four in the afternoon and everyone went home to rest . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | About 4 am things quietened down , and we went home to get a spot of sleep . |
| 27 | Early in the evening she went home to get her brown envelope . |
| 28 | Women did their shopping , gossiped , then went home to prepare the Sunday meals for their families . |
| 29 | I went home empty handed and uncertain about what to do next . |
| 30 | Everyone in the stand went home saying the same thing — I 'd have got that one . |