Example sentences of "home in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most choose to come for two-week periods , with time to practise at home in between . |
| 2 | The supermarket gives them to me to bring my wife 's shopping home in on Fridays . ’ |
| 3 | With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid , over-25s , the development in the ad industry of ‘ psychogeographics ’ ( the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics — i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans ) , and the construction of bands in the studio , pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the ‘ left ’ . |
| 4 | It was nice to home in on the one naive sentence in a book and quote it , making the author look like a prat . |
| 5 | They have got to have some natural talent to home in on them , at first . |
| 6 | From the outset there was a fear that the defence intended to home in on Mr Bush 's relationship with Noriega , both as CIA director and Vice-President . |
| 7 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 8 | They live mainly on berries and fruit , so they tend to home in on people 's gardens . |
| 9 | The filthy conditions would n't help : the droids probably had infra-red sight , and heat-seekers do n't notice a rainstorm when they 've got a rocket trail to home in on . |
| 10 | The strategy is that it is difficult for a predator to home in on its target in the confusion which follows an attack on a shoal which scatters in all directions . |
| 11 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 12 | It seems that the listeners , both black and white , were able to home in on some as yet unidentified aspect of the phonology of these two adolescent boys which identified them as black . |
| 13 | A bat is a machine , whose internal electronics are so wired up that its wing muscles cause it to home in on insects , as an unconscious guided missile homes in on an aeroplane . |
| 14 | I if I can ask you to home in on that five thousand pound figure , once you reach five thousand pound on any assignment you get another fifteen percent bonus . |
| 15 | As I said there are just three sizes but I 've got five five prices , I would just like to home in on those three . |
| 16 | They might think to themselves , what is the most important thing for us to home in on first of all ? |
| 17 | Well , you 've picked the wrong target to home in on this time , Mr Burns ! |
| 18 | I mean , I think , there is something there that needs pursuing , I 'm not accusing all judges of being , inherently , you know , nutty , or , whatever , but , the number of cases that have come to light in the last few years , whether it 's because the press have just decided to home in on them , |