Example sentences of "home and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She prayed steadily , all those seventeen years , for guidance , for confirmation that she was still fulfilling divine purpose , and was only interrupted at last by her mother 's voice , demanding in a querulous letter that Isobel should come home and nurse her while she died — as she had been told she soon would — of cancer . |
| 2 | The only situation in which it tends to look so is the transient one of adolescents leaving home and protesting against their parents . |
| 3 | I 'll go home and blow my candles out , come on |
| 4 | Anxieties about going home and resuming activities may appear more obvious to the nurse when a patient has had major surgery . |
| 5 | Must not drink any more as have to drive home and collect children en route . |
| 6 | Kenny Clark flung himself forward at the ball , only to see his efforts strike the foot of the post , but Julio Berazi was on hand to stab home and collect his fourth goal of the season . |
| 7 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 8 | ‘ I got home and had the sensation of pins and needles up my left side which affected my face , tongue , leg and arm . |
| 9 | She wondered how long it would be before Kathy grew alarmed If Clare was n't home and had n't telephoned by two o'clock — or three at the latest — she reckoned that Kathy might phone the police , who would surely find her before long . |
| 10 | She shivered as she recalled the terrible blackness that had invaded her home and had clung to and coated the village on that night when she had heard the voices . |
| 11 | She just wanted to go home and had started to worry about the hour it would take her to get there , the sorry state of her boots , the snow coming on . |
| 12 | The friends , all from the Meadowfield and Brandon area of County Durham , had stayed overnight on their way home and had made an early start to get back in time to play in a Sunday League fixture for their local pub team . |
| 13 | His house was broken into , his fiancee was attacked while walking home and had her handbag snatched , and then his car window was smashed . |
| 14 | ‘ After the police had come and talked to us I just went home and had a cup of tea and a glass of brandy with water and went to bed . ’ |
| 15 | Try to avoid making instant decisions ; instead , go home and draw the proposed piece to scale on some card . |
| 16 | Because of this , my aunt and I returned home and ate before setting off for the first of our two destinations . |
| 17 | We 'll skin them right here and preserve their hides so they can be shipped home and stuffed . |
| 18 | How we all laughed when I got it home and realised I ca n't play ! |
| 19 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 20 | He staggered home and raised the alarm . |
| 21 | I mean you say ‘ I 'm only a housewife ’ , and then some man comes home and thinks you 've done fuck-all all day . |
| 22 | It 's probably full of abbreviations and emendations because you 've had to rush to get it all down , so take it home and write it up into recognisable dialogue . |
| 23 | Go home and write the story of the secret , divulging it to your reader at the very end . |
| 24 | She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods . |
| 25 | You always took children home and let the parents deal with them . |
| 26 | If you got home and let them go , slosh water into them , you 'd soon have some dead 'uns . ’ |
| 27 | Coffin went home and let himself into his flat . |
| 28 | A friend of mine told me that although he is a committed Christian , when he leaves home and goes to work he has to play by the rules of commerce . |
| 29 | Now go home and rest for a while , Charlie . |
| 30 | I took a taxi home and went to sleep . |