Example sentences of "to sit [prep] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refuse to sit at home with my needlepoint , dear . |
| 2 | ‘ When everybody travels it will make it awfully pleasant to sit at home . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Now I will have to sit at home with my fingers crossed and hope we get the right result . ’ |
| 4 | It was horrible , but we were teenage fools and we wanted to sit at home and do big grown-up things . |
| 5 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 6 | But it 's ever so easy for somebody to sit at home and say well you should be doing this and you should be doing that |
| 7 | not content to sit at home and wait for things to happen to her . |
| 8 | I can see his point in a way ; he likes a full social life … and he does n't want to sit at home with a wife who is depressed and can only talk about babies . ’ |
| 9 | I 've had to accept that the kind of woman who attracts me is n't the kind to sit at home having babies and darning my socks . |
| 10 | The prospect of that responsibility terrifies me , and I know I would n't be content to sit at home all day with a baby . |