Example sentences of "[modal v] get home " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now if you 'll excuse me , I must get home to me boys . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I must get home soon , ’ I said . |
| 3 | I must get home , back to the things I know ; maybe I 'll start to feel right again then . |
| 4 | I MUST get home before sundown . |
| 5 | She did n't say : I must get home to Peter , but it was her thought . |
| 6 | I reckon she must get home , take home about eighty quid a week or something . |
| 7 | Yeah , and you should get up you should get home in twenty minutes |
| 8 | I said to Bev erm do n't mean to say , I mean I might get home and find she 's got a phone call but she said to me yes I mean we , she did think of going out yesterday , and it was me that stopped it but if I feel so inclined today we 'll go down if she 's in |
| 9 | ‘ Poor old lady , she used to say , ‘ There 'll be a penny change and you 'll get home some nice rock . ' … |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll get home quicker . ’ |
| 11 | Then tomorrow evening I 'll get home in time to see my son awake , in time to cook a meal , in time to get to grips with things . |
| 12 | The Foreign Office says he 's decided not to appeal against the sentence in the hope that he 'll get home more quickly . |
| 13 | Sometimes I 'd get home earning £200,000 a year . |
| 14 | During the week I 'd get home late and sleep in the spare room — ‘ so as not to disturb her ’ . |
| 15 | So we sauntered home and by the time just when we got home perhaps by you know we 'd get home at nine , by quarter past nine er we saw the Zeppelin come over . |
| 16 | Then Saturday morning she 'd load up again and start off round down at the round Mill Corner along the Piste for the and back and then across to the where you come from Ely and all those houses along there and she 'd get home about one o'clock from there . |
| 17 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 18 | The Tories could profit from this switch of allegiance and , with the opposition vote split , Mr Forsyth could get home . |
| 19 | If she could get to Tottenham Court Road tube station , she could get home almost on automatic pilot . |
| 20 | The longest period for which her mother was left alone was for three hours and Mrs Cahuac worked close by so that should anything happen to her mother during this period she could get home quickly . |
| 21 | And everybody could get home very quickly because of the railway stations that were there . |
| 22 | Or — and something came apart in his stomach and turned a revolution and plummeted downwards — were they all politely and patiently waiting with well-controlled longing because it would not be too long now before they could get home and carry on with the lives they preferred without him ? |
| 23 | My posting came through and I was posted to Swordstone this side of Norwich , so I was still quids in , I could get home once a week , twenty four hour pass and then erm after a while erm , having served at Regiment , I was posted up to , as the Sergeant Artillery Clerk with the Brigade , an ack-ack brigade up at Coventry , just outside Coventry and then of course the A T S were coming in , were coming in in quite large numbers then and they were replacing male personnel and then I was posted abroad and I went to Egypt where I was there again , fortunate enough , I suppose , to go into the echelon , the second echelon which was the Records Office of all the forces or the armoured personnel in the Middle East and I worked there until I was actually demobbed from there but I was out in Egypt there for two , just over two years , came back to Northampton where I was finally demobbed and allowed to come home and as I said I came home one week and I was back at work the next . |
| 24 | What she must do was concentrate on getting her memory back so that she could get home to them as soon as humanly possible . |
| 25 | I used to get home absolutely exhausted from work and he was sitting there and he 'd say , " What 's for dinner then ? " |
| 26 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ While the play was on I would get home in the early hours of the morning and then Maisie would wake me up really early . |
| 28 | I would get home at about 7.30 in the evening and I still had to do my homework . |
| 29 | Irina did n't know when or if , she would get home that night . |
| 30 | ‘ I shall get home somehow . ’ |