Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] home [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
2 | Duncan Campbell Macewan , who for ten years had managed a sheep station in Australia bigger than Islay , had come home and claimed he was the oldest feuer in Bowmore and was one of the few whose feu was for life " while water runs and grass grows , " When the chairman asked " Do you suffer from late harvests ? " he was told " Sometimes , not very often . " |
3 | Was there a wind to swing the great plantation bell which he had brought home and hung on the oak beside the east gate ? |
4 | They had gone home and told their parents . |
5 | When he went through the back door he discovered the printers had gone home and thought at first no one was there . |
6 | A good example occurred in 827 – 8 : a noble from the Spanish March , disappointed at the palace , had gone home and allied with the Muslim amir of Cordoba to pursue local claims against Count Bernard of Barcelona . |
7 | Although this caused some small problem because the manager had gone home and taken his office key with him , a duplicate was soon found and Duncan let into the sparse office . |
8 | The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father . |
9 | She decided that she would make a phone call just to check that Jenny had left home and knew the right time of her arrival . |
10 | Even Graham , one of the few members who had left home and lived in a flat , would be helping in the campaign , although he would not be voting Conservative , so much did he dislike the personality and politics of the local MP . |