Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] come home " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the first lap Walker was 30 metres clear and eventually came home 200 metres ahead of Reid who finished on 9:6.8 , 28 second adrift with Egeler finishing third further eight seconds in arrears . |
| 2 | Just yet , and so come home to dinner |
| 3 | I was longing to say no when she rang on Sunday but simply could not — she is married to a German and only comes home to Scotland once a year because of the costs , and I know how much she likes to come through to see the shops and friends . |
| 4 | Yet Rachaela saw the brief daylight ebb with a slight amusement , waiting for Ruth to appear punctually , as if just coming home from school . |
| 5 | He remained just long enough to save a substantial sum by the standards of Irish wealth and then came home with his newly acquired capital . |
| 6 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 7 | ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ They go out to work and then come home and do the bloody housework . |
| 9 | A lot of people say , ‘ How on earth can you manage to work together in the theatre , and then come home and be together , too ? ’ |
| 10 | I 'd be in a club till 2 o'clock in the morning and then come home , sit down and be bored until the morning started and then I 'd be walking round , taking the dog for a walk in the park . |
| 11 | I really would like a holiday , but I do n't want to spend a lot of money , and then come home and find an atmosphere . |
| 12 | to get up to the thirty five mile an hour you got ta go through all the five gears so you 're forever pa going like that erm and that made it worse so that last fortnight she has n't been on the bike and that last weekend when she went out she went because we was busy , she got her bike out and she went up to work one or two of her mates and then come home she said she 'd wished she had n't of gone up |
| 13 | And then come home here if you 've got any homework do it take a sandwich . |
| 14 | Apart from getting ready to go and then coming home again you see and your meals and that sort of thing . |
| 15 | He had to go you see , but I mean er later in my lifetime when we lived in the in the village at I can remember very very well the the er the miners there er going to work and then coming home again , going to work and coming home again , nothing for them to do . |
| 16 | ‘ How is it that your brother left and never came home ? ’ |
| 17 | I was always worried when he went to work , but y you do n't think your husband 's going to go to work in the morning at five o'clock and never come home again . |
| 18 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 19 | The Dodger and Charley Bates went out to work every day , but sometimes came home with no handkerchieves , and Fagin would get very angry . |