Example sentences of "i come home " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 2 | Most days I 'd go without food till I came home to cook the evening meal . |
| 3 | When I came home late after working overtime they 'd say , ‘ she is not a good woman we must not keep her in our house . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But after rowing about it for ages , I came home from work the other day and it was n't on . |
| 5 | I came home with a heavy heart and wondered how on earth I could foster vocations . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I went up to Chicago and Detroit to work and , when I came home again years later , my mountain was gone . |
| 7 | When I came home about 1.30 a.m. after evening shift , I had the choice of a hot-water bottle or a hot drink . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I came home towards the end of March 1944 , in time for Leslie 's twenty-fourth birthday , though we were not able to spend it together . |
| 10 | Well , I came home for the 1986 Turnberry Open expecting to caddie for Mac O'Grady but that did n't materialize , so Nick and I joined up in July 1986 . |
| 11 | One day I came home from training and Mum asked , ‘ How much do they pay you for all this running ? ’ |
| 12 | On another occasion I came home with a pulled hamstring . |
| 13 | ‘ And then it died and I came home . ’ |
| 14 | I came home later and found Kelly shaken . |
| 15 | One day I came home and she was packing . |
| 16 | I came home to find the adults in a different tank ( salted for Mollies — but they 're fine ) as the wee Angels were slipping through a ″ gap at the bottom of the divider , to get eaten . |
| 17 | Around my eighth birthday , I came home from school to find two women waiting for me . |
| 18 | The next morning , I came home to defiance in the face of defeat and 50 Scots Labour MPs , the Fighting Fifty . |
| 19 | ‘ I came home … for a visit , ’ she temporised . |
| 20 | I came home from work and I could hear sobbing in her bedroom . |
| 21 | That 's something that did n't happen when I came home after a long day at work . |
| 22 | I came home seconds later to find a scene of unbelievable devastation — a chaotic heap of shelves , books and nails , with may parents have-buried under the mess , trying guiltily to repair the damage . |
| 23 | The Monday after the men were laid off I came home from school to find crowds of people gathered outside Miss Louise 's door chattering excitedly . |
| 24 | When I came home from one of my theatrical capers , it was there — sitting in the hearth looking smug — and , I must admit , snug too . |
| 25 | I even enjoyed Nonni 's company ; when I came home in the evenings , she would make tea and we would discuss Tom and Oliver , their beauty , their brains , their marvellous futures . |
| 26 | I mean , alright a few mad things happened and everything and when I came home I was whacked because we 'd just been on a big adventure theme park for a month . |
| 27 | ‘ She would give me a hug and a kiss when I came home from work . ’ |
| 28 | I came home bruised and in tears sometimes , but I gave as good as I got . |
| 29 | And when I was n't with her , like when I had to go to school and she had to stay behind in my bedroom until I came home , she was all I could think about . |
| 30 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |