Example sentences of "to do [prep] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are given advice , counselling and work to do at home . |
| 2 | She could n't reach Kelpie from the nearest branch to him , but when she was as near as she could get she put out her hand and called softly to him , just as she used to do at home . |
| 3 | This was not a lucrative job , but she had had so much to do at home that she could n't undertake anything else . |
| 4 | Gabby , who , with her husband , was preparing to run a guest house and had quite enough to do at home , cooked and brought down to the new house a hearty and beautifully cooked meal each evening , and filthy and exhausted the three of us would wolf it down . |
| 5 | The feminists had marched in thousands when David Laing MP , in his maiden speech , urged married women to give up their jobs because ‘ there is so much to do at home ’ ; they sabotaged a cricket pitch ( cricket being ‘ male idleness elevated into a religion ’ ) etching into the grass with acid their crudest symbol : a round-cornered diamond to represent a vulva , with a large clitoris and no opening . |
| 6 | Life was not all work and no play for women any more than for men ; even if they had chores to do at home , the women compositors — who almost by definition young and/or unmarried — had the chance to escape duty for pleasure from time to time . |
| 7 | Brewing Nescafé on her own gas-ring and buying solitary quarter pounds of cheese for herself ; and painting one wall geranium red and another cornflower blue and the others white , as she wanted to do at home but her mother would not let her . |
| 8 | They feel useless being no longer productive workers and yet having little to do at home . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've got some work to do at home . ’ |
| 10 | Besides , he had enough to do at home , now the house was on the market at last . |
| 11 | He had told them he had things to do at home , had saved up the day for solitude . |
| 12 | The analogy was there to draw between what they were prepared to do at home and what they might contemplate doing out of sight in a subjected territory . |
| 13 | And you had some work to do at home on that . |
| 14 | But you 're not going to know what to do at home any more than you do here , except for what your Mum bullies you into . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't , but there are things I have to do at home . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The things I do are not recommended for children or anyone to do at home . |
| 17 | How much are they supposed to do at home ? |