Example sentences of "home after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , jet-lag is experienced on returning home after a stay in another country , when the traveller is returning to his own culture . |
| 2 | ‘ You know I love you , ’ he said when he got home after a month in Rimini and San Marino . |
| 3 | He also suspected it was taking poor Sombro even longer to get home after a heavy session ! |
| 4 | When Sombro comes home after a long excursion , he 's usually very thin , in poor shape and a bit battered and bruised . |
| 5 | Candles and oil-lamps gleamed weakly in distant windows and a torch shone briefly down by the ancient Cross as a link-boy led a gentleman home after a night 's revelry , by the shortest and hopefully , safest route . |
| 6 | So I prefer to drive back home after a meeting , no matter how far it is . ’ |
| 7 | Carl had got home after a long day . |
| 8 | On their return home after a day 's work they must then be given a good if not excessive meal . |
| 9 | Now , as she crossed into Farringdon Street and saw familiar landmarks , she stopped and put down her bag , gazing about her with the pleasure of someone who has come home after a long absence . |
| 10 | Two men challenged Chris as he walked his girlfriend home after a night out . |
| 11 | And you know and I know that when I come home after a nice relentless day at the rehearsal rooms , it will look like Versailles , Southfork and Designers Guild rolled into one . |
| 12 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 13 | Thousands of commuters using Victoria and Waterloo stations — which serve the south of England -had to find alternative routes home after a coded message claiming to be from the IRA warned of two devices in the capital . |
| 14 | Before lapsing into a coma Suzanne , who had left home after a row with her stepfather , told rescuers she had been held captive for a week . |
| 15 | And then seconds later Worrell Sterling got another one for Posh when he slotted home after a mistake from keeper Ray Newland . |
| 16 | Howe has returned home after a scare over a chest condition . |
| 17 | In the commonplace crush of damp and steaming humanity returning home after a day 's work in the city , worries over Nadirpur and Clarion Call seemed grossly exaggerated . |
| 18 | With techno enjoying a second coming in Leeds and banging out of every other shop in the renovated arcades on Saturdays , some people were getting home after a day 's shopping and fancying something a bit different . |
| 19 | TIPSY cyclist Jeffrey Maidment set off home after a night in the pub — and rode the wrong way down the M27 motorway . |
| 20 | At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day . |
| 21 | Within any such population it is possible to identify four subgroups : long-stay residents ; those who die shortly after admission , those who return home after a period of convalescence and those who move to another long-term care setting after a short stay . |
| 22 | She pictured Jezrael back home after a shift at Nutristem , laughing and ranting over some petty injustice , wry with self-mockery , a crusader with no shield but a vivacity she could n't even see . |
| 23 | I even got a job for one of my half-sisters at a place in Lunedale , but she did n't settle to the job like me and wanted to go home after a short while . |
| 24 | Perhaps in the past , rolling home after a battle , Tess 's ancestors , the real d'Urbervilles , had done the same , even more cruelly , to young country girls . |
| 25 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 26 | Alfred , returning home after a kitchen luncheon with his colleagues , had seen the love of his life . |
| 27 | You 're supposed to be taking things easy , and I come home after a day 's work and a beastly journey hoping for some restoration and some intelligent company . |
| 28 | Ianthe was not the type to pour herself a glass of sherry or gin as soon as she got home after a day 's work , nor yet to make a cup of tea . |
| 29 | He was conscious of a growing feeling of peace and well-being as he drew nearer — like a weary traveller returning home after a long and tiring journey . |
| 30 | Then , last night , the master 's wife came home after a weekend away . |