Example sentences of "home [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last prisoner had been allowed to keep his sight only in order to lead the others home as a terrible example . |
| 2 | Douglas took the watch home as a treasured memory of his father . |
| 3 | At the end of September Violet came home for a long weekend and Perdita was so bloody-minded that in despair Daisy escaped to Harvest Festival for an hour of peace . |
| 4 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 5 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 6 | Then it 's home for a well-earned cup of coffee , and sleep . |
| 7 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 8 | But when the Cup ties came round , Chapman made another , more dramatic decision — he dropped Alex James , the man intended as the team 's dynamo , and sent him home for a complete rest . |
| 9 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 11 | Having got to Bristol , he went home for a short holiday and died . |
| 12 | Notts went ahead when Mike Simpson volleyed home after a long throw-in . |
| 13 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 14 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 15 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 16 | Nick Brown was cleared of drugs charges in Goa , but has only just been allowed home after a long campaign by his mother . |
| 17 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 18 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 19 | But United reasserted themselves when Paddy Connolly angled the ball home after a tremendous dash from the midfield in the 59th minute , and substitute John O'Neil completed the scoring ten minutes later . |
| 20 | British evacuees return home after a gruelling journey across the desert . |
| 21 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 22 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 23 | She was sent home after a short while because she was suffering what it looked like , a flu symptoms . |
| 24 | He also suspected it was taking poor Sombro even longer to get home after a heavy session ! |
| 25 | Erm sometimes if he 's been out very very late and I 'm still up and he 's come home after a heavy night drinking . |
| 26 | She bit her lip , the significance of what she was seeing sinking home like a jagged knife between her ribs . |
| 27 | The luckless creature , who confessed to coming from Leeds as though it were an explanation of the folly , abandoned it all and trudged home like a beaten cur . |
| 28 | So Anabelle made her home under a lilac bush in Sergeant 's garden . |
| 29 | Immediately a whirlwind of change ripped through Althorp as the new mistress endeavoured to turn the family home into a paying proposition so that the awesome debts the new Earl had taken on could be paid off . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , just rest completely , Faye , ’ Belinda agreed , as she pressed the door home with a gentle click . |