Example sentences of "[verb] to his home " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father-of-two Mr Watts was returning to his home in Portugal after a shopping trip to Amsterdam . |
| 2 | Their father , Dr. William Shippen ( 1635–1693 ) was a native of Stockport who enjoyed a varied ecclesiastical career , returning to his home town in 1678 to become Rector : his younger brother , Edward , first Mayor of Philadelphia in the then American colonies , is perhaps better remembered as the founder of the wealthy transatlantic branch of the family . |
| 3 | A. H. Halsey , David Donnison , John Vaizey , Noel Annan , and Michael Young were among those whom he invited to his home to argue about the strategies and , but only after they had worked , to enjoy his hospitality : ‘ People become much too talkative if you give them something to drink . ’ |
| 4 | They came to his home uninvited once or twice and they would waylay him as he emerged from work at the factory . |
| 5 | headquarters , left strict instructions about what news and reports should be channelled to his home number immediately , and what could wait , and drove with the exaggerated care and deliberation of sleeplessness back towards the village of Comerford , uncomfortably in transition to a suburban area , where he , and the unhappy parents of the boy Boden , lived within three doors of each other . |
| 6 | It was not as if she would be going to his home . |
| 7 | When he got outside he turned to the right , up to the mountain road leading to his home . |
| 8 | Dominic Martindale , 17 , was killed as he walked to his home at High Wycombe , Bucks , last month . |
| 9 | He made friends easily and after his wife died there seemed little to keep him tied to his home area . |
| 10 | The Palace was Whibley 's only League club and , when he left us at the end of 1922–23 , he returned to his home town to play for Sittingbourne . |
| 11 | COUNTRY singer Billy Ray Cyrus returned to his home in Nashville , Tennessee , from his European tour to find fans had installed a gym . |
| 12 | His personal nightmare began at 1.15am last Wednesday when he returned to his home in Bramingham Green , Luton . |
| 13 | My earliest recollection of Fred was when , as a schoolboy , I watched spellbound as he returned to his home in Belfast holding aloft the old Claret Jug , signifying his victory at Hoylake in 1947 . |
| 14 | On his retirement in 1961 he returned to his home at Dunlop , Ayrshire , and devoted himself to analysis and further surveys of megalithic sites ( ‘ stone circles ’ ) from the Orkneys as far south as the well-known Carnac site in Brittany , with over 2,000 stones . |
| 15 | On Feb. 12 Mandela held his first press conference for the world 's media in Cape Town , and on the following day he returned to his home in Soweto , where he addressed a crowd of over 130,000 at a football stadium . |
| 16 | With the last call complete , Eddie returned to his home near Dumfermline . |
| 17 | After finishing his studies , and marrying Raisa , he returned to his home town to work his way up the Party hierarchy . |
| 18 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 19 | But then he gave up concert performances to retire to his home in Texas . |
| 20 | Last night I was in a furious rage because Edward asked me to go to his home this afternoon , and he would show me some flowers and nests he thought I would like to see . |
| 21 | Nearing the Sandaig River , which rushes down from the mountains and passes beneath the road to enter the Sound , gated forest roads lead down to the beach where Gavin Maxwell had a cottage he called Camusfearna and wrote his world best-seller about his life there with the sea otters he admitted to his home as companions . |
| 22 | The gang then went to his home and shot his aged mother . |
| 23 | Mr Lockwood did not appear and the daughter went to his home and demanded to know why . |
| 24 | Other youngsters of a similar age went to his home in Northwick Road , Evesham . |
| 25 | The constables were speedily despatched to his home at Bray . |
| 26 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 27 | And I shall go out with Nigel as often as I like , I shall go to his home whenever I like , and it 's nothing to do with you ! |
| 28 | The vicar managed to catch him before he fell to the floor , and he was removed to his home , where he died on the Friday morning , 8 September . |
| 29 | They forced him to draw money from a cash machine and then made him drive to his home in Moulton where they threatened his parents with a kitchen knife . |
| 30 | Henry Angus and John MacDonald , who are both from Northampton , admitted forcing Jason Buck to hand over a cash card , punching him and making him drive to his home , where Angus stole a microwave oven . |