Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] home [conj] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would just wait at home and hope for the best — you know , that a decent price would be bid . |
| 2 | Amsterdam certainly has it all with the city 's most enduring attraction being the Amsterdammers themselves who will instantly make you feel at home and help you enjoy this marvellous city to the full . |
| 3 | It 's only good manners to make your guests feel at home and give them a go now and again , but Swindon were a little too kind just before half-time . |
| 4 | It is all well and good for Chris Baines to talk of office workers who can work at home and use the phone , or executives making better use of their travel time and less use of their cars . |
| 5 | The English Tourist Board 's half of that erm is designed to persuade us , to persuade the British that erm is the year that we should discover Britain , this is the year that we should stay at home and take our holidays in the view of everything that 's happened , and in view of prices overseas . |
| 6 | I mean I said to Shaun on a Friday night we 'd better decide this , otherwise there 's no point in us coming through tomorrow mate , we might as well stay at home and go to the football or something |
| 7 | Or shall we just stay at home and go out for days and |
| 8 | I was awful , in those days I was into acid green sleeks and I had my hair cut in a triangle When I saw Auntie Muriel I thought , if that 's the way you end up , working on a farm , I 'll stay at home and become an underresourced juvenile But it was n't up to me . |
| 9 | ‘ Why do n't you stay at home and help Aunt Bedelia with the dandelions ? ’ he suggested . |
| 10 | I could stay at home and try to write a novel . |
| 11 | Otherwise , we might as well all stay at home and stare at computer terminals . |
| 12 | I could not stay at home and write a novel because I feel too tired and run down , and need a break from mental activity . |
| 13 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case ! |
| 15 | These Sherlocks could stay at home and save the tax payers some money . |
| 16 | You know , you should stay at home and have at least eight babies — it 's incredibly difficult , I mean a lot of parents would disagree whole heartedly with what I tell the girls . |
| 17 | Perhaps next month Esquire could stay at home and have a wank . |
| 18 | If I did n't go I could stay at home and work on the house . |
| 19 | During the union 's last strike on April 16 , Britain 's 11,000 mile rail network was brought to a standstill and nearly 100,000 London-bound East Anglian passengers were forced to either stay at home or make alternative arrangements to reach the capital . |
| 20 | All you want to do is sit at home and watch TV . |
| 21 | Maybe I 'd best push off home and look in again tomorrow . ’ |
| 22 | What shoppers really want , it says , is American-style freephone numbers , so they can shop from home and spend more of their spare time socialising or playing sport . |