Example sentences of "[to-vb] home to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This place will always be here for her to come home to as long as I breathe . ’ |
| 2 | Here on this east side are the exaggerated sweeping gables , the cottagey front door with its hinges forged with heart-shaped ends ( a trade mark of Mr Voysey ) , the elaborate gutters , the pebble-dash over the two-feet-thick stone walls , and the cosy , comforting scale of the whole , so nice to come home to on a wet and windy evening . |
| 3 | Here in this place we are being encouraged to come home to God 's dwelling place . |
| 4 | Thus a migrant son from a Scottish island croft answers his parents ' call : ‘ when I grew old , I had to come home to be with them . ’ |
| 5 | With a cheerful place like this to come home to , thought Nelly , The Two Pheasants would lose its appeal . |
| 6 | ‘ Good God , ’ said this devout Welshman , ‘ this will do for many of the Navy boys worse than the sinking of their own ships , they will have no wives and children to come home to ! ’ |
| 7 | Stuck at work all day with no-one to come home to at night — all very well for you sitting holding hands with Ted with little Frieda watching , you do n't know what it 's like , being on your own , not really — ’ |
| 8 | D' you think you 're fun to come home to ? |
| 9 | When you 're there to come home to . |
| 10 | Through our affiliation with Resort Condominiums International , you can holiday in over fifteen-hundred exotic locations throughout the world … secure in the knowledge that you will always have your Highland retreat to come home to . |
| 11 | ‘ It is great to have someone to come home to . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's great to have someone to come home to . |
| 13 | Who 'd want to come home to this ? |
| 14 | I did n't have any children to come home to . |
| 15 | Knowing he 's got a good sound business to come home to when this old War 's over . ’ |
| 16 | Well he was well he was coming from the Grove to the finger post to come along Wolverhampton Road , Lichfield Road , to come home to Church Street . |
| 17 | Flavia said happily , ‘ It would be quite wonderful , I should have a family to come home to in the holidays all my life . ’ |
| 18 | Jean-Claude had all the music worked out for the ‘ Chansons ’ , there was nothing to worry about there , and something good to come home to . |
| 19 | And , as you heard from her own mouth on the telephone this morning , she is fine , though she refuses to come home to you and your wife . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It does me good to come home to you , Schätzchen . |
| 21 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 22 | It was n't the best news to come home to — finding my renegade nephew had not only broken and entered my apartment but was bent on destroying an important career opportunity by eloping with some feather-brained teenager ! |
| 23 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 24 | I wanted , suddenly , someone to come home to . |
| 25 | Nothing to come home to for some . |
| 26 | ‘ So you 've come to see if I 'm in a fit state to come home to , is that it ? ’ |
| 27 | I feel as if I 'll always have somewhere to come home to . |
| 28 | He used to go around with a jug of orange juice to drum home to people that it is impossible to earn more unless more is produced . |
| 29 | Edward , now in Oxford , felt obliged to write home to his mother with full details of the affair and for the next fortnight pondered the steps he should take . |
| 30 | And when they had dined , the remainder was divided among them to carry home to their families . ’ |