Example sentences of "went home to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 2 | East African Patels often went home to Gujerat to marry , and the women , with their vast dowries , almost invariably married higher Patels . |
| 3 | Then they went home to the battlefields of the Great War . |
| 4 | She would imagine calling him up to her room every night before he went home to bed with a man , and taking her silver hairbrush from her desk and brushing his hair out like a daughter 's , one hundred strokes every night . |
| 5 | The shepherd grew pale and left us at once , and tried to rid his stomach of the dread stuff , and thereafter went home to his bed , expecting to die . |
| 6 | Went home to Wales and he had the police uniform on . |
| 7 | So hungry was he for the role that , instead of going for treatment , he went home to bed . |
| 8 | He went home to his fiancee in Scarborough , North Yorks , after a hospital check-up . |
| 9 | Though she set up house with him , she still went home to Eccles every Sunday for a traditional roast lunch with the family . |
| 10 | Hank went home to lunch . |
| 11 | She went home to England and died . |
| 12 | STING , 41 , went home to Newcastle yesterday to receive an honorary music doctorate at Northumbria University . |
| 13 | But when Mellor upped and went home to his wife and two young sons in Putney , Antonia became enraged . |
| 14 | Upon closure of the branch line in 1957 , the B.E.M.U. went home to Derby where it became departmental test unit ‘ Gemini ’ , before eventually being acquired by the West Yorkshire Transport Museum . |
| 15 | I went home to the cottage , had an early supper , then set off on the walk to the post office . |
| 16 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 17 | Tom went home to Ealing at last . |
| 18 | I went home to the woman I 'm staying with , a single parent with three children aged between two and nine years . |
| 19 | She went home to her windowless attic , sweltered and turned , remembering Ford 's red-stone Virgin with intense pleasure , plotting The Yellow Chair , remembering the yellow triangle of Alexander 's trunks on the prow of the Stella Maris . |
| 20 | I went home to Norway , and a year later , my father died . |
| 21 | At Easter and Christmas I still went home to Cliff Top . |
| 22 | I went home to me mam , who had left me dad by then . |
| 23 | Letters went home to our parents about it , our weekend leave was stopped and we was n't allowed to associate with any of the other girls . |
| 24 | I went home to York , but my father and mother were dead , and also my two brothers . |
| 25 | And he and my mother had a disagreement about this and er the result was that my father became very ill and I went home to Grandma . |
| 26 | When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food . |
| 27 | Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 28 | He completely forgot about young Mabel and at the end of the day went home to bed . |
| 29 | I went home to my family and they were very pleased to see me . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm also an only child and my mother , who 's very English , also went home to her own folk after my father died in South Africa . ’ |