Example sentences of "got home " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs were n't allowed on troopships but were entrusted to American Express to deliver to their owners once they had got home . |
| 2 | Many of the young bees , however , circled helplessly and never got home . |
| 3 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 4 | Paper seller Gerard O'Hare , 18 , had just got home when two members of the outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters burst into the house with guns blazing . |
| 5 | Got home in time to watch the last couple of overs on the television , but then discovered that the highlights were not on TV until 1am . |
| 6 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 7 | Haverford had got home after the children had gone to bed , earning Molly 's frowns for slamming the car door , shouting good-night to Fosdyke and singing ‘ Lydia , the tattooed lady ’ all the way upstairs . |
| 8 | We had left John last night at the club , and I wondered with a quailing sensation when he had got home . |
| 9 | Especially if you do n't realize that till you 've got , till you 've got home and you realize you 've got to go through all the hassle of going back to the shop to complain . |
| 10 | Paul and Miranda Gunn had their charming young family to help them look after the guests ; their two sons Mr Munro Gunn who works at John D. Wood , and Mr Marcus Gunn who had just got home from Paris , where is working at the Paris Business School ; also their two daughters Miss Petronella Gunn , who is studying at Bristol University ; and seventeen-year-old Miss Rosie Gunn , who is a member of the Junior British Eventing team , and last year competed at Lausanne , where she won the award for the highest placed British rider . |
| 11 | Not all the transactions were strictly honest , though , and sometimes customers got home to discover that they 'd bought a cat or a puppy , thus that expression and an expression bonus : ‘ letting the cat out of the bag ’ . |
| 12 | In fact I 'd rather you ask as I 'm going through because er very often you think of something and er you wait to the end and you 've forgotten what it was you wanted to know until you 've got home when then you re all of a sudden you remember what it was . |
| 13 | That was what Josey had told Lisa when she 'd finally got home , flush-faced and anxious , still upset from her angry encounter with Alexander Vass and worried sick about little Emily . |
| 14 | She 'd fully intended to call the insurance company yesterday afternoon , as soon as she had got home . |
| 15 | The man had her address and was going to write , but by the time he 'd got home had decided not to . |
| 16 | Mrs had got home in her jeep with just chauffeur and one extra bodyguard , defying the pleas of the other wives , some half an hour after Kaptan and I had left with the Corporal , but she had n't been able to get the Colonel on the military net for nearly two hours after that . |
| 17 | got home late last night — left N. at 2.30 which was 1.30pm our time and then got , just — with literally only about four minutes to spare once he had rung me , the 6pm train from Kings Cross . |
| 18 | Got home safely , did yer , that night we spent up West ? ’ |
| 19 | On the Friday before the incident occurred he had not got home until three o'clock in the morning . |
| 20 | And no , I should n't worry about it as Fenella had cleared it up before Frank and Salome had got home . |
| 21 | I got home eventually through the snow , sorry we had a bad night maybe better next time . |
| 22 | That message needs to be got home , I 'm pleased to note this evening that after three years of making these suggestions you have at last started to accept some of them . |
| 23 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 24 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |
| 25 | Nigel must have got home very late . ’ |
| 26 | The North-East 100 and 200 metres champion won the long jump with a leap of 5.65 metres and was prevented from completing a sprint double when City of Hull 's Karen Buck just got home in the 100 metres . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 28 | Got home and got straight back into the harvest . |
| 29 | Many of these were prisoners of war or internees and er we 're very happy to report that these got home after the war and we have many of them here today that were prisoners of war . |
| 30 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |