Example sentences of "he [verb] home on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My Chinese counterpart told me his 11-month old daughter used to cry when he got home on Saturday nights because she did n't recognise him ! ’ |
| 2 | When he came home on leave in April 1930 , they both returned to their childhood home and made all the necessary arrangements for its sale . |
| 3 | He told ‘ er that , when he came home on his next leave , they were going to get married . |
| 4 | It was in Burma that he caught some sort of fever and he never got over it ; he came home on leave and never went back . ’ |
| 5 | His journey was worth while as he came home on his own nearly two minutes clear of Alastair Martin ( Ards — Mike The Bike ) . |
| 6 | He arrived home on 16 January 1779 , just before his 23rd birthday . |
| 7 | He arrived home on 4 June , to a passionate reunion with his wife ( if his letters , full of expressions of his desire for her , are to be believed ) . |
| 8 | Pat McWilliams who won the Ladbroke in 1991 on another former Scott horse , The Iliad , also used Homer 's stables as a springboard to the sort of fame he achieved at Cheltenham later that year when he stormed home on Destriero to land legendary gambler Noel Furlong a ‘ touch ’ estimated at around £1m . |
| 9 | About three million people thronged the airport and the street of Teheran to greet Khomeini when he flew home on 1 February 1979 . |
| 10 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |
| 11 | Lester Piggott is another comeback expert and he eased home on Mr Brooks in the British-dominated Abbaye . |
| 12 | He went home on the Saturday night of his third week with someone who invited him to stay for Sunday lunch . |
| 13 | He left home on the word of promise ; he was prepared to sacrifice his son because God said so ; and his trust in God was estimated in terms of relationship to God . |
| 14 | But on this trip Gooch has not even had that pleasure and it is imperative now for England 's chances of winning back the Ashes from Australia this summer that their weary 39-year-old captain quickly recovers in health and spirit when he returns home on Saturday week . |