Example sentences of "[to-vb] at home and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I make enough money to pay others to help at home and queue for me . |
| 2 | ‘ This summer I decided to stay at home and present a jazz/big band summer course , similar to the programme at Appel Farm , having seen the progress made by the pupils in America . ’ |
| 3 | People , they said , would do better to stay at home and contemplate the teachings of the Koran . |
| 4 | She found that domestic life imposed more constraints upon girls than upon boys , for they were expected to stay at home and help with housework . |
| 5 | Janice plans to stay at home and devote herself to looking after me and Kirsty . ’ |
| 6 | Many of those women who choose to stay at home and bring up their children are made to feel guilty by outsiders ( often in the media ) implying that they ‘ should ’ be working . |
| 7 | The French also like to stay at home and prefer to take their leisure in their own country . |
| 8 | I know when we 've er sold the house , when our children all went and left us , the house was for three bedrooms , right , and I , I said to my husband I do n't want to stay here because they built the school outside behind our er , erm back yard , and every , all the rubbish that kids throw threw over and I said to him I do n't want to stay now kids , kids gone , children gone leave , left home , got married and went to off , I said I do n't want to live here , I do n't want to retire to , to stay at home and listen to the kids at school all day long and have the rubbish thrown over the hedge |
| 9 | I 'll have to give up work to stay at home and look after him . ’ |
| 10 | Sometimes I think I should offer to stay at home and look after the wee fellow myself . ’ |
| 11 | For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for . |
| 12 | He wanted her to stay at home and look after the children as much as she did ; he wanted her to be mainly interested in them . |
| 13 | Suddenly it is glamorous to appear nice and normal , and those who used to want to run the boardroom or run away to Paris now want to stay at home and watch programmes like Roseanne and Kate And Allie — new cult programmes that offer a cosy and entirely spurious view of family life . |
| 14 | The others , he paid to stay at home and practise . |
| 15 | So perhaps the moral for itinerant artists is to stay at home and work with what you know . |
| 16 | Some had very young children and ( like many mothers of young babies ) felt they ought to stay at home and care for them . |
| 17 | You 've got to stay at home and have children — men ca n't have them . |
| 18 | We buy theatre tickets and have the restaurant booked when , if we stopped and checked what we actually wanted to do , we might find we would much prefer to stay at home and have an early night . ’ |
| 19 | It is women who have to go alone ; whose lovers do not have the patience to wait at home and pray for them . |
| 20 | not content to sit at home and wait for things to happen to her . |
| 21 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 22 | But it 's ever so easy for somebody to sit at home and say well you should be doing this and you should be doing that |
| 23 | It was horrible , but we were teenage fools and we wanted to sit at home and do big grown-up things . |