Example sentences of "[pron] could [verb] [prep] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 2 | I could stay at home and try to write a novel . |
| 3 | What I 'd like is just a few regulars , that 'd come by appointment , like , so I could stay at home . |
| 4 | Deciding she 'd had enough of her office for that week , she filled her briefcase to bulging with work she could do at home , and closed her office door at five sharp . |
| 5 | Left home as soon as she could , McLeish observed , instead of starting where she could work from home . |
| 6 | So the man needed a way of showing how wealthy he was , and he did that by having a large house , by having lots of servants , and also by dressing his wife , I mean by having a wife who did n't have to work , who could stay at home , and wore clothes to show this , so you get the beginning of incredibly impractical clothes which showed that the woman obviously did n't do any work , because it was completely impossible to do any . |
| 7 | A SKIING holiday is for those with more money than sense , giving you the chance to meet a lot of people you could meet at home for nothing . |
| 8 | Wella 's high quality , creamy formulations give you a look you never dreamed you could achieve at home . |
| 9 | Then we could make for home , and you could meet Mother . ’ |
| 10 | John was being put in readiness for going ‘ over there ’ , so that middle-aged women like herself could sit at home working at petit-point and , hopefully , growing a little food . |
| 11 | For them , Japan was a magnet , promising them wages many times what they could earn at home , but according to one Pakistani worker who yesterday decided to speak out publicly , the reality was very different . |
| 12 | You know , if they could n't go and be a brick-layer , but they could sit at home , and you know , stick stamps on envelopes , or whatever , earn some money , then they might have to do that because they have n't got this plan . |
| 13 | They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property . |
| 14 | Some older people feel that they could manage at home if there were someone else living in their home , perhaps helping with light care tasks , or just ‘ keeping a watchful eye ’ . |
| 15 | it could plays at home and it played alright , it played well , but it was n't being |