Example sentences of "[noun sg] home the " in BNC.
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1 | If only he had pushed his advantage home the night the Dorking brothers gave their party ( ‘ The Night of the Hundred Cans ' , as it was still known in Wimbledon ) . |
2 | Some further details of the poem were clearly borrowed directly from West Somerset : the harbour from which the mariner set sail can only be the little harbour at Watchet , the hermit 's woodland home the wood at Culbone , and the ‘ loud bassoon ’ , whose sound caused the wedding-guest to beat his breast , probably had its original in the bassoon which the vicar of Stowey had just provided for the Stowey church band . |
3 | Oldham 's joy was complete when , 10 minutes later , the effervescent Ritchie fed Irwin and then ran on to head home the full-back 's cross for his second goal and Oldham 's third . |
4 | Their leader , Peter Bancroft , 36 , said : ‘ We have been struggling with British Rail 's shortage of drivers for months and have christened our regular train home the ghost train . ’ |
5 | Visit the ancient temples and the tombs of the Pharaohs as your cruise ship sails down the Nile to Esna , Luxor , the West Bank and El Amarna before arriving back in Cairo ready for your flight home the following day . |
6 | With the tub installed in their Simi Valley home the happy couple indulged in regular fun and games in it , with never a thought for their high blood pressure . |
7 | Oh aye that 's another lad he was on his road home the pony used to After a a drink in Kilray In Kerry the the ponies nearly took the men home . |
8 | There was no response and the meeting continued on another tack until a man came from the back of the room with a story about how he had , in the pitch black night , walked straight into a lamp post on his way home the night before : hence the severe head pains . |
9 | On his way home the son did not believe that there was any possibility of his father forgiving him . |
10 | On the way home the recorded voice on the car radio gave its weathered , sweet , mellow report of the day 's play . |
11 | The furore on the Conservative side raged all year ; it has been continually claimed ever since that RPM cost Home the October 1964 election , in which Labour won the slimmest majority of four seats . |
12 | In our comfortable holiday home the kids cut out and coloured a dynasty of paper people while we caught up on our videos . |