Example sentences of "[verb] home for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was expected home for my husband only in the evenings . |
| 2 | and all she can think of to say is ( and here he mimicked a heavy filmstar accent which actually was nothing like the actress in the film at all , because the woman in the film is an ordinary , decent , hardworking woman ) , ‘ Oh dahlink , I 'ave missed you so much , ’ and then the first thing she does after waiting for him to come home for seven fucking years is to leave the fucking gas on while she 's making his coffee , and then of course she 's so tense that she just ca n't wait for a fag , she lights up , there you go ; bang . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I do n't come home because there 's nothing to come home for , that 's why . |
| 5 | He began to whistle now , accompanying it with a little shuffle of his feet which brought a wide grin from Joe ; then becoming serious for a moment , he said , ‘ You knew , I do appreciate Martin getting leave to come home for my twenty-first . |
| 6 | ‘ Would you like to come home for a drink ? |
| 7 | For her man to come home for his tea |
| 8 | She said : ‘ Try and persuade him to come home for a special tea . |
| 9 | I wan na go , I 'm going to school tomorrow but I 'm going to come home for lunch . |
| 10 | IT WAS THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS AND ANTHONY HAD COME HOME FOR good , or rather until he found a job . |
| 11 | Now her parents had come home for good , and had taken a beautiful house in Buckinghamshire , where Mrs Grant meant to entertain on a large scale . |
| 12 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 13 | IT WAS all the proof his family needed that the old Leslie Crowther they knew and loved had come home for Christmas . |
| 14 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 15 | In second place Frank Emmelmann had to be at his very best as Linford Christie charged home for the British team , pushed all the way by Bruno Marie-Rose and Stefano Tilli , but the East German held on well as Linford was given the fastest ‘ anchor ’ split of 9.1 . |
| 16 | During this festive season , the population of the island is swollen with Madeirans returning home for their festivities from all parts of the globe , as well as a vast influx of tourists . |
| 17 | A great many people seemed to be crowding in , presumably returning home for their Saturday half day . |
| 18 | Julian whose home is at Seamer , near Scarborough is currently the assistant cruise director in the Caribbean and is returning home for the presentation ceremony next month . |
| 19 | His blue Vauxhall Astra car was on the drive where Mr Miles had parked it after driving home for lunch yesterday . |
| 20 | Fly your rocket ship to Saturn , enter a top secret institute of technology , find and deactivate the deadly TechnoBombs on 12 levels to save the planet from being blown into another Galaxy and then fly home for tea . |
| 21 | Cos they were playing Newtons Thursday night and she said they 'll have to write home for nine men so Newtons int gon na stand a chance . |
| 22 | The association announced it would start work early next year on a purpose built home for 30 homeless youngsters . |
| 23 | However , on mother 's birthday which fell on 24th May , father would always bring home for her a bunch of lilies of the valley . |
| 24 | The only bloodshed came when Leroy Rosenior chopped down Steve White in the box to give away a penalty , which Paul Bodin slammed home for his 8th goal of the season . |
| 25 | I had to mention one thing then , that if my children came home for Christmas , or for a holiday , or for a little visit , we should all have to squeeze up . |
| 26 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 27 | When we came home for a mid-day dinner , the washing lines in the back garden would be hung with sheets , towels , our clothes , hankies and so on . |
| 28 | When we came home for tea , Mummy would still be ironing . |
| 29 | Lady Paignton , too , found various jobs for the girls , as Mrs Dare had prophesied , and when her son Tony came home for a fortnight , things began to hum in another direction . |
| 30 | 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 . |