Example sentences of "[vb -s] home the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they are inside , waiting while he scrapes home the bolts . |
| 2 | Scotland coach Douglas Morgan accepted : ‘ It 's a bit of a blow but the sooner Iain goes home the better , as depending on the results of the probe , he could still be available for the World Cup sevens at Murrayfield . ’ |
| 3 | Women 's seemingly paradoxical behaviour merely drives home the point that there are profound contradictions and complexities of position to be unravelled before we can get further in our understanding of the road to divorce . |
| 4 | Each evening the wife takes home a company car and the husband drives home the delivery car . |
| 5 | Jimmy Knapp , leader of the rail union RMT , said : ‘ This drives home the dangers of BR 's programme of de-staffing stations which is gathering pace . ’ |
| 6 | You could easily forget how good tracks like ‘ Achilles ' Last Stand ’ from the 1976 album ‘ Presence ’ or ‘ Ramble On ’ from ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ were , but their inclusion here drives home the point that they are absolute classics . |
| 7 | 6 The defender drives home the turning kick to the head . |
| 8 | More topically Smith drives home the absurdity of the present British water industry installing meters in households and then setting up a huge bureaucracy to monitor them and gather payment — a move that will make water much more expensive ( and thus more attractive to the private companies which will eventually provide it ) . |
| 9 | You could easily forget how good tracks like ‘ Achilles ' Last Stand ’ from the 1976 album ‘ Presence ’ or ‘ Ramble On ’ from ‘ Led Zeppelin II ’ were , but their inclusion here drives home the point that they are absolute classics . |
| 10 | In addition , a newly-formulated strategy for the North West , which was submitted to the EC yesterday , drives home the case for Merseyside . |
| 11 | GOLD STRIKE : Carl Lewis leads home the American sprint relay team |
| 12 | One takes home the bargain and sets it down in its place , and sees either one 's own talent or poverty of imagination . |
| 13 | Often one takes home the luxury and sees only a mulched wad of money . |
| 14 | He hammers home the message that the US international role has destroyed it at home : ‘ The battle is right here , and it 's not incoming missiles , it 's incoming inequality . ’ |
| 15 | Domi is a new idea that brings home the importance of safety in a way you 'll warm to immediately . |
| 16 | It brings home the fact that there 's no life to be found here ; there 's no Bob Marley anymore . |
| 17 | Whose name the place is in does n't matter very much ; what 's more important is how long the marriage has lasted , what contributions each of you has made ( not just financial — the law considers the home-maker who brings up the children to be just as important as the breadwinner who brings home the money ) , and probably the most important factor , the future of the children . |
| 18 | In the Funeral March Gavrilov 's consistently maintained pulse brings home the inexorability of death with a noble dignity , while the trio , totally unsentimentalized by rubato , is a truly ethereal , Elysian vision . |
| 19 | The camera takes the audience into the situation , brings home the reality of a problem , makes vivid the emotions of the participants . |
| 20 | It brings home the manifold and almost surreptitious ways in which the internal life of academic institutions serves to sustain , reinforce and reward class-related forms of style , language and behaviour . |
| 21 | This plane brings home the squadron 's support staff after a 3-month stint in the desert . |
| 22 | He presses home the pin and steps down . |