Example sentences of "came home [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any thought of what was to happen to his family home in Belfast had to be shelved until a joint decision could be reached with his brother when he next came home on leave . |
| 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 | When I came home on leave I used to meet them in Crawford 's Oak Hall in Princes Street , and now I made the usual arrangement . |
| 4 | When the chaplain , Fraser McLuskey , came home on leave from France he visited Leslie 's mother and me . |
| 5 | When André Warnod came home on leave he asked him politely whether he would like to have his portrait painted in uniform . |
| 6 | Joe came home on leave and this brought even more comfort to his mother . |
| 7 | Eileen came home on leave at Christmas and Stephen who had returned to Newcastle also came home . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | But I do remember being impressed by the various fathers who came home on leave and the colourful uniforms they wore , more especially those who wore the " maternity jacket " of the Royal Flying corps . |
| 10 | In January Joe came home on embarkation leave and was more free to see Sarah because his father was so engrossed in the baby . |
| 11 | Just think of those winter evenings when you came home with feet like blocks of ice . |
| 12 | She came home with stories and imitations of her " ladies " . |
| 13 | When we came home for tea , Mummy would still be ironing . |
| 14 | I had to mention one thing then , that if my children came home for Christmas , or for a holiday , or for a little visit , we should all have to squeeze up . |
| 15 | Would it not have been better for them to wait until the children came home for Christmas ? |
| 16 | Stephen came home for Christmas , but it was a quiet , sad time for the family . |
| 17 | Especially when the family came home for Christmas in later years . |
| 18 | I only came home at week-ends … " |
| 19 | The child no longer came home at lunch-time . |
| 20 | ‘ It would sometimes be ten o'clock before I came home at night . |
| 21 | overnight , he came home at lunchtime |
| 22 | She sometimes came home at weekends , but she had to study hard . |
| 23 | Georgina Molyneux told the Winchester inquest : ‘ When she came home at Christmas she was not her normal self , she seemed very quiet . |
| 24 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |
| 25 | She came home to Oxford at weekends , and she and Eleanor and Anna spent Saturdays together , and often the husbands joined them for supper . |
| 26 | We ca n't begin this week with anything else but the Barcelona Olympics which came home to Oxford athletics coach Marcia Marriott . |
| 27 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 28 | His great horse earned it with apparent ease — but lost 29lb in the process and came home to Ballydoyle more exhausted than after any of his previous races . |
| 29 | However , although he made some valuable and technically superb images there , he became disillusioned by travel , and came home to London for good . |
| 30 | It was midnight when he came home to Tace Way . |