Example sentences of "when i [vb past] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got home my dad took one look at it and said , you look like a bleeding nancy boy . |
| 2 | ‘ When I got home I called the NRA freephone pollution number and I was told it was too dark and cold for anyone to go down and somebody would be there first thing in the morning . |
| 3 | It started when I got home from hospital after having my baby . |
| 4 | When I got home , my mother 's face was white with shock . |
| 5 | When I got home , I kept him in for a while , then , ashtray at the ready , let him loose for another try . |
| 6 | She got in trouble when I got home . |
| 7 | We did not stop , and when I got home to Banbury it was to hear that my mother had died that day in Cardiff . |
| 8 | But when I got home , I spent an hour simply looking out of the window of my home at the campus , and speculating on its future . |
| 9 | I saw the men playing chess in the hot Szechenyi baths and managed the journey back , but when I got home , people shook their heads . |
| 10 | ‘ When I got home , the doctor came and said of course she could n't cook , so I was doing the cooking . |
| 11 | When I got home I said , ‘ They ought to know you better than think you would marry a prostitute . ‘ |
| 12 | When I got home I looked up Fauré in the Oxford Companion . |
| 13 | When I got home Mum and Dad were in their bedroom together and poor little Allie was outside banging on the door like a five-year-old . |
| 14 | When I got home , a week later , wobbling about on crutches , I was to confront the grinding realities of being involved in a car crash . |
| 15 | ‘ When I got home , that 's when it hit me . |
| 16 | And when I got home , poor ma was dead and I was the one on me own ! |
| 17 | If I could n't produce a marriage date , and Nigel could n't officially be registered dead without it , perhaps he was n't , because legally he could n't be , and when I got home I 'd find … |
| 18 | When I got home I found , among the mountain of letters ( mainly telling me I had filled in a blue form when it should have been a yellow one or asking for information I had already given ) , one from the BBC asking me to get in touch with the Punters office in Bristol as soon as possible . |
| 19 | I went out and bought a remedy , thinking it was an infection , but when I got home I realised that she actually had a piece of red coloured gravel stuck inside her mouth , so that she could n't close it properly . |
| 20 | When I got home Mum was acting very strangely and frogmarched me off to Derek 's house . |
| 21 | I wondered what she was doing , if she was all right , what I 'd do with her when I got home … |
| 22 | When I got home , I would buy a new computer and explore first DesignaKnit and then other software packages . |
| 23 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 24 | I only felt slightly ashamed when I got home and saw my children . |
| 25 | Then I 'd have a good blast when I got home , like . |
| 26 | When I got home he was already in his room , whistling away cheerfully . |
| 27 | When I got home with it , I gave it a wash , and tried it out almost immediately . |
| 28 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 29 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 30 | When I got home I picked up the threads of my ordinary life again very quickly — you might say I snatched them up , and plunged into a round of work and social life deliberately intended to give me as few idle moments as possible . |