Example sentences of "come home from " in BNC.
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| 1 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 2 | Rezia is waiting for her son to come home from school . |
| 3 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 4 | She reported a general response as good as on the Arsenicum , went on holiday and had to come home from it because her period was again heavy and all she could do was lie down ! |
| 5 | The plan was to come home from Ireland , have a week at home , play in the French Open , The Belfry , and then the Open . |
| 6 | To come home from work and sit in front of the TV all evening does not make us feel better . |
| 7 | Continental Airlines became one of our sponsors , offering tickets for my husband and I to go to London and to come home from Australia . |
| 8 | ‘ Now that I know your ghost I do n't even have to wait for you to come home from the sea . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It still leaves the business of you having to come home from Dublin on the bus every night , ’ Eve said . |
| 10 | He did not mind , because he was waiting for his boy to come home from school and then he 'd have his run along the riverbank . |
| 11 | No man wants to come home from the war to a wife or sweetheart who shows in her face how much she has worried about him . |
| 12 | ‘ As well as children are when their mother fails to come home from a party because she 's shacked up with some gorilla in a cheap hotel . |
| 13 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 14 | Rose Brady had come home from Glasgow to nurse her father and stayed on irresolutely after his death , one day stretching into days . |
| 15 | She would usually leave the house after we had come home from school at four p.m . |
| 16 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 17 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 18 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |
| 19 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 20 | I 've often come home from a job , or visiting so-called happily married friends , and thanked heaven fasting for my lot . |
| 21 | She had come home from school with Antonia . |
| 22 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
| 23 | My nephew is come home from his travels after having been abroad these five years . |
| 24 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 25 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 26 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 27 | It was Scott who launched McWilliams on his Irish career after he had come home from England where he had made his start and Pat stayed with Scott for two and a half years before moving on . |
| 28 | Now they plan to take a year off and travel round the world , like their friend Nick Blunden , who 's come home from his travels , unloading a sackful of memories . |
| 29 | Sometimes , you 've just come home from work and your feet are sore and your head aches , but then the music starts playing and away you go . |
| 30 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |