Example sentences of "[to-vb] home for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , of course , there should be the choice , especially for islanders having to work on the mainland who want to come home for the weekend . |
| 2 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 3 | When he was at school , but he used to go home for the Christmas holidays and nobody saw him again till about March cos he was , he could n't even get to Rothbury he was snowed in . |
| 4 | There 's nothing unusual about clogged up roads in London , but this was the school half-term holidays — usually a haven of relatively clear tarmac , a glorious window of opportunity to leave home for the office a quarter of an hour later . |
| 5 | He would work more overtime and try to get home for the winter . |
| 6 | Kevin had been poor then and unable to get home for the funeral . |
| 7 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 8 | There are always people on this land : a boy sitting on a grazing buffalo , a girl cutting short , dusty grass with a sharp hand-held hoe , filling a basket to take home for the oxen . |
| 9 | In summer he let her cut a bunch of flowers at the end of the morning , to take home for the table . |
| 10 | Rigney , the strong redhead , had to return home for the tour and Donal Lenihan was flown out as his replacement . |
| 11 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |