Example sentences of "he came home [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He told ‘ er that , when he came home on his next leave , they were going to get married . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | His journey was worth while as he came home on his own nearly two minutes clear of Alastair Martin ( Ards — Mike The Bike ) . |
| 5 | but total revision an I mean , the other night he sat in , he came home at four o'clock and he was up till nine thirty just doing homework . |
| 6 | overnight , he came home at lunchtime |
| 7 | He came home at the home did n't you ? |
| 8 | Instead , in 1749 , he came home to Devon to take charge of Squire 's Endowed Latin School in South Molton , and at the end of the year was ordained by the Bishop of Exeter . |
| 9 | It was midnight when he came home to Tace Way . |
| 10 | It 's time he came home to me . |
| 11 | But he came home to a recession . |
| 12 | Years later , he came home with his right arm blown off by a shell , and ragged lungs after a poison-gas attack : he would never work on the docks again . |
| 13 | He came home with many stories about the strange , dark mysteries which he called Siberian Magic . |
| 14 | Alan says his wife says of golfers there you are a big cup and lots of money … last week he came home with the cup but no money |
| 15 | He came home as a passenger in the tractor of another driver who brought his trailer home . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ He came home after closing time . |
| 18 | The driver then has the ticklish problem of explaining to the missus why he came home by bus . |
| 19 | He came home from a night 's fishing with the news that King George V was having a review of the British fleet , and would sail through the Channel to Chatham at the head of his Navy , leading them in a dreadnought . |
| 20 | Molly remembered the day he came home from the war . |
| 21 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 22 | She was very excited by the stickers and would tell her father when he came home from work . |
| 23 | Her husband Harold was a lamplighter and when he came home from work he was obliged to take off his boots in the passage and place them on a sheet of newspaper before entering the inner sanctum . |
| 24 | Just to think of what he would say if he came home from a Council meeting and found an American soldier sitting in his parlour made Carrie 's stomach shrivel . |
| 25 | From a letter written so that I could read it to Basil before he came home from hospital : |
| 26 | She had been giddy in the mornings and tired at night ; her breasts felt different , she had been sleeping badly , dreaming dreams , longing all day for Tristram to come and take her in his arms and love her , when instead she had had to be content with no more than a covert glance from him when he came home from Knollys 's yard in the evenings , or a touch of his ankle under the table at supper time . |
| 27 | Since he came home from the war , he ca n't get any work , see ? |
| 28 | He came home from the July meeting at Newmarket in 1904 and set men on the following week . |
| 29 | ‘ She hurt him dreadfully when he came home from Africa , crippled and his career in the army over , just when he needed her loving support the most , and now she has the gall to chase him again , when I hoped and prayed that he had finally recovered from her brutal treatment of him . ’ |
| 30 | When he came home from college she 'd be reading The Catholic Mind . |