Example sentences of "not [verb] [pers pn] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children will encounter the Christian Church in the outside world , and will meet with Christianity among their contemporaries as they grow up , even if they have not met it at home . |
| 2 | Furthermore , teaching Portuguese in primary school to children who do not speak it at home further isolates school experience from that of the home . |
| 3 | Why not do it at home , away from the distractions of the office , is the important thing . |
| 4 | ‘ They 'll not like it at home . |
| 5 | Mr McBride had taken the money after a nephew advised him not to keep it at home . |
| 6 | If those companies can not sell their products at home , and if the Government do not encourage them at home , people abroad will not be encouraged to buy them either . |
| 7 | The other three more closely fit the latter than the former model : Mrs Mitchell 's daughter wanted her mother admitted permanently to the local psychiatric hospital ( knowing that she would not be eligible for residential care because of the severity of her condition ) ; but she also added — ‘ not that I do n't want her at home too — I love my mother — it 's just that the strain is too much for me ’ . |
| 8 | Will did n't need me at home , because he was busy writing his new play , A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 9 | She does n't do it at home , she can easily go out |
| 10 | They have n't done it at home . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't keep them at home forever , you know . |
| 12 | ‘ I wish you would n't ring me at home . |
| 13 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 14 | You know , if you ca n't sell it at home , you know , you get rid of it on the world market . |
| 15 | You 've got Coke , that 's your treat each week , cos you do n't have it at home , you only have it on a Sunday |
| 16 | ‘ The ones who do n't leave them at home should be sent down . |
| 17 | He tried to tackle Gina about it , hinting that a young man like him needed sex from someone if he could n't get it at home . |
| 18 | Nigel also told every journalist proudly that he was ‘ married with one son ’ , although he made damn sure they did n't interview him at home , where they might meet his wife , or worse still , her friends . |
| 19 | Dad , you know I erm like I have n't sent you at home that are like good for you bad for you . |
| 20 | Well , she would n't find him at home . |
| 21 | If he ca n't find her at home , tell him to look in the public library in the afternoon . |