Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] to home " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important , however , to have a source of money close to home . |
| 2 | Evangelical opponents of cruelty to animals campaigned against the trade in feathers , along with other forms of cruelty closer to home including cock-fighting and scientific vivisection experiments . |
| 3 | The Avon , Severn and Trent are all likely to feature in Denis ' matches for the rest of the season , although he is likely to stay away from events close to home where the meat has become the number one bait . |
| 4 | Although he found much to admire in the oriental-megalomaniac architecture of Kim 's Korea or Mao 's China , in his quest for a style suitable for a monumental Bucharest he looked to precedents closer to home . |
| 5 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 6 | The result is a drama that remains more worthy than absorbing , despite the excellent performances of Michael Byrne as Roberto and Bill Paterson as Gerardo ( is his Irish accent meant to indicate an application to application to events closer to home , or descent from Bernardo O'Higgins ? ) . |