Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] home [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I got home on the evening that it was announced Terry Venables had taken out an injunction , one of my children was very nervous and said ‘ Why do n't you throw in the towel ? |
| 2 | and then I used to stop at Jessie 's , you see , when I come home with the cart and leave the loaf of , loaf of bread then I used to go back , well , after tea and stop there for weekend , yeah . |
| 3 | Well to me when I come home of the Crimean I look at these massive tips you know in Blaenau on your left and the old on the right and that , erm if the old man that first rucked his pick and shovel or whatever trussel and or whatever they started would have known what he was starting then , it was like the Klondike of Wales . |
| 4 | When I come home from the river with that heavy basin of wet laundry on my head , my knees begin to shake , and sometimes I lose my balance and fall right on my face . |
| 5 | I even enjoyed Nonni 's company ; when I came home in the evenings , she would make tea and we would discuss Tom and Oliver , their beauty , their brains , their marvellous futures . |
| 6 | My parents were absolutely shocked when I went home from the doctor , seventeen year old and living on drugs , so so to speak , just because I was a bit excited about getting married ! |
| 7 | When I went home in the school holidays I had to sleep on the bed-settee in the ‘ front room ’ . |
| 8 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 9 | It was dark when you went home in the |
| 10 | When she arrives home in the evening , she knows she will have no stimulating exchange of news to look forward to with a husband and family . |
| 11 | Usually when she got home with the bread Léonie dumped it on the kitchen table . |
| 12 | ‘ This has knocked her back , she has been very poorly and really cried when she got home from the hospital . |
| 13 | She 's back in the canteen from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. , when she goes home to the children and her working day starts its next shift . |
| 14 | Honey was sweet and gentle from the day she was born , so it was rather a surprise when she came home from the horse breaker with a completely changed personality . |
| 15 | When she came home from the hospital , she had noticed new locks and bolts on the doors , front and back . |
| 16 | Katy was looking very pleased with herself when she came home from the nursery . |
| 17 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 18 | When we got on the plane , we appreciated the Chinese caution : it was a rather ancient Russian prop-driven machine , which must have been one of those the Russians bequeathed to the Chinese when they went home in the early 1960s , taking all their spare parts with them . |
| 19 | Schooldays and the void they both felt when the boys went off to boarding school , followed by the joy unconfined when they came home at the end of term . |
| 20 | Many mothers continue to work part-time even when their children start school , so they can be there when they come home in the afternoon and so holiday childcare arrangements are a little easier . |
| 21 | Or at tea , when they come in in the morning or when they go home in the evening . |
| 22 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 23 | But she welcomed Pat with tears of relief when he returned home after the eight-hour raid . |
| 24 | Did Boy ever ask himself why he did n't dream about men , when he got home from The Bar — why he had instead these strange dreams of shoots , bulbs and roots ; roots kept in the dark , waiting to flower , needing a gardener 's attention ? |
| 25 | A deadly game of cat and mouse follows and Ryan is faced with an even deadlier challenge when he gets home to the United States . |
| 26 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 27 | He taught her that the sacrament of the eucharist was so big that he did not feel that he had finished with it when he came home after the service at 8 a.m. on Sunday morning . |
| 28 | Five minutes later the midfielder completed his hat-trick when he fired home from the spot after substitute Eamon McLaughlin had been fouled . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you think his parents are going to be happy when he comes home for the holidays with a scar the length of his face ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If things are as you say , then a man can never be sure of his wife ; never be sure that he 'll find her there when he comes home at the end of the day . |