Example sentences of "be [prep] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll be off home , then , ’ said Philip . |
| 2 | ‘ Caspar and me 'll be off home , then , ’ said Lee . |
| 3 | We thought he would be off home , and none too keen to make another wasted journey . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I must be off home . |
| 5 | ‘ They 'd all be off home ! ’ |
| 6 | " You 'll be after Home Rule for your own country , I expect , " she said . |
| 7 | While figures for the year showed an increase in real growth of 2.9 per cent , business investment was down 3 per cent , consumer spending down 0.1 per cent and the growth elements appeared only to be in home purchases and government spending . |
| 8 | Erlich was content just to be on home territory . |
| 9 | When he saw the cap badges he felt himself to be on home ground . |
| 10 | ‘ At first he agreed that he 'd much rather be at home with me . |
| 11 | ‘ But you wo n't be at home , will you ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There are times when I wish she could have a couple of years off to bring up her children , be at home with them , and not worry about anything else apart from them and her husband . |
| 13 | West Ham will be at home to Derby , for whom their former striker Paul Goddard is such an important figure . |
| 14 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
| 15 | It was , he felt , just too difficult to be at home at all , with Claudia in a permanently bitchy mood and both his teenage children taking their cue from her and behaving intolerably . |
| 16 | She could be at home or she could be up in the wood still . |
| 17 | Left to myself I might have tried to persuade , to plead , to wheedle , to say how nice it was going to be at home . |
| 18 | Clement 's purpose was to make cultured persons under instruction for baptism , called ‘ catechumens ’ ( by contrast with ‘ the faithful ’ who are the baptized ) , feel that they would be at home in the church . |
| 19 | But yes , I would rather be at home if I had the choice . |
| 20 | McCann happened to be at home in Derry on a visit when he was invited to take part in a DHAC demonstration . |
| 21 | I too desired to be at home , and was glad when we were able to close our own dear front door behind us , and be gathered in to the silence of our little parlour . |
| 22 | He 'll be at home now . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ So the most I can hope for would be to be at home on a respirator full-time ? ’ |
| 24 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 25 | We were sent out in pairs after 6 pm in the evening when all the paterfamilias who were left might be at home , to make a thorough census of the district and ask who might be in a house , when , and what were the provisions for even more serious raiding . |
| 26 | Most in the occult would be at home in your local golf club . |
| 27 | Men tend to put greater store by their work once there are children ( perhaps because of the burden of being the sole earner , and perhaps because their place at work is not unchallenged in the way it may be at home ) and housework , which before may have been shared equally , often now falls to the woman . |
| 28 | Stadtverkehr im Wandel meaning Town traffic in change began by stressing the role of streets in a child 's growth as it learned ‘ to be at home in the town ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ How I long to be at home and have some plain food . |
| 30 | After school , Mrs Trickett suggested , they would probably be engaged in other activities ; at bedtime perhaps only one parent would be at home , and the children would be tired . |