Example sentences of "home [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl 's defence solicitor said she was now living at home after months in a children 's home during family difficulties . |
| 2 | On his way home through Weatherbury he saw the coach from Bath . |
| 3 | The couple were allocated their new housing association home through Middlesbrough Council . |
| 4 | Then they met John walking home through Battersea , South London . |
| 5 | Unable to impose himself , Clarence allowed himself to be bought off before returning home through Bordeaux , plundering on the way . |
| 6 | He also lived at Bridge of Weir , and on his way home through Paisley , late at night , he stopped on the old bridge . |
| 7 | On the way home through Canada I wrote the first few chapters of a book about my views on the tour . |
| 8 | Marie said nothing but she had worked at an old people 's home as part of her Community Care Course . |
| 9 | Neither are victims of racial harassment always poor women : Ms Z is divorced , lives on her own , and was fortunate enough to secure her home as part of the divorce settlement . |
| 10 | Those who come with an open mind and see the place for themselves invariably return home as ambassadors for our province . |
| 11 | Arthur , if he comes home as brass as |
| 12 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 13 | They are potentially very dangerous and what we are worried about is members of the public picking them up and taking them home as souvenirs . ’ |
| 14 | It survived and is still trading but Gilbey now works from his Norfolk home as marketing manager for Team Lotus . |
| 15 | He was a scholar and for many years studied to learn the ways of dragons ; he was proud but not stupid , and he learned all that the books could teach him , and then he set off on a long journey and captured two baby dragons and brought them home as pets . |
| 16 | Police are treating a fire at a Cleveland community home as arson . |
| 17 | The farmers listened to him , and he was no great admirer of Edward Heath , who replaced Home as leader of the Conservatives in the summer of 1965 . |
| 18 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 19 | Well i think she 'd go off early in the morning and then would come home about teatime . |
| 20 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 21 | CURTIS ROBB stormed home for Liverpool 's only gold at the Pearl British Athletics Championships at Crystal Palace . |
| 22 | Super-shy George Michael bought his Californian dream home for £3 million two years ago , but he 's spent less than a fortnight in the futuristic house . |
| 23 | So I 've got to chase all of them up and most of them are going to have gone home for Easter . |
| 24 | Not the other day , when I went home for Easter last year |
| 25 | Paul Parker and Bryan Robson have already returned home for treatment on hamstring strains . |
| 26 | Miltoun House , Guisborough , the residential care home for adults recovering from mental illness , is holding its first jumble sale at Sunnyfield House today from 9.30am to 12.30pm . |
| 27 | I think they jump in the jeep and go home for mince and dumplings and a mug of instant coffee . ’ |
| 28 | It was the outsider when ground share was first muted , but a super-league home for Edinburgh football in the west of the city , handy for the motorways and the bypass might make sense , might it not ? 's the number to dial . |
| 29 | The inner cities — especially London — are very badly hit and some children have had to be sent home for lack of teachers . |
| 30 | In a separate case , the boy , from Aycliffe Centre — a care home for Britain 's most dangerous youngsters — was found guilty of 14 motoring offences . |