Example sentences of "who [verb] at home " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may look like a demure little wife who sits at home minding the house , but darling , I could tell you one or two things that would make your ears stand up on end . ’ |
| 2 | In a recent study performed by the authors , however , old people who lived at home were asked to record their habits each day ( times of waking , eating , visiting friends , sleeping , etc ) for a ‘ typical week ’ . |
| 3 | She was secretary to Lady Margaret Hall from 1880 to 1914 and , as lady secretary to the AEW ( 1883–94 ) , was responsible for organizing tuition for women students and for supervising those not attached to a hall , who lived at home or with ‘ hostesses ’ in the city . |
| 4 | So far as I am aware , we have no evidence , for example , to show whether male unemployment which in some areas has been higher than the rate for females , has enabled tending tasks of old relatives to be taken on by men who remain at home . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the high proportion who are still dependent on their parents may have important implications for housing and health and social services needed for those who remain at home as their parents become elderly and frail . |
| 6 | They can point to all those young married women with degrees who sit at home and grumble . ’ |
| 7 | MY DAUGHTER , who lives at home with my wife and I , is in full employment and because of her low wage she pays a reduced poll tax . |
| 8 | We hear about the sensitive New Age man who stays at home and changes nappies — but , actually , I do n't think these men are any more satisfying to women than any other male role model for the past 2,000 years . ’ |
| 9 | I WAS an infant teacher for 38 years and it always makes me angry when anyone says that a mother who stays at home caring for her child is ‘ wasting her talents ’ . |
| 10 | Though I too have my outside proof of a professional self , I too am a woman who stays at home . |
| 11 | The classic one of the unmarried daughter who stays at home to look after parents for instance . |
| 12 | Yet if football was the only factor the prospect would be a fascinating one — the 1988 show transferred from the summer thunderstorms of West Germany to the clinging heat of Palermo and Cagliari , in which the Egyptians will be the only players who feel at home . |
| 13 | In other words , Laura 's idea of the working woman was one who worked at home , and her needs should be catered for so that she could look attractive in the environment in which she naturally flourished . |
| 14 | A child who speaks at home with a powerful local accent , in dialect , with a swear word between every two or three ordinary words , or who hardly speaks English at all , must learn ‘ proper ’ talk at school . |
| 15 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 16 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 17 | Tizard , for example , mentions the need to support the natural parents to enable them to care adequately ; Kellmer Pringle has advocated payment for mothers who stay at home to care ; and a further interviewee who may be identified with the ‘ society-as-parent ’ view had this to say in answer to the argument that the 1975 Act put already powerless parents in an even more powerless position : |
| 18 | The romanticized picture of housewives happy over their labour of love is also challenged by accounts of the higher rates of depression among women with small children who stay at home , by such eagerness to take paid work that they will accept rates of pay and conditions of employment that no man would tolerate , and by accounts of the slow hard slog and monotony of housework . |
| 19 | In addition , the study showed that further income is generated by Irish people who stay at home to attend a festival instead of travelling abroad . |
| 20 | I feel we need a poet to tell of the contribution made to our Christian Aid Week by those who stay at home and bake so that the baking stall can be kept so magnificently supplied every day . |
| 21 | To ignore those who live at home is unacceptable ; it runs counter to a general sense of social responsibility . |
| 22 | The boys who boarded in dormitories despised the boys who slept at home . |
| 23 | I admire the strength of my kinswomen who stayed at home and who later on embraced arranged marriages . |
| 24 | Similarly will the employee lose out when coming back to Britain ending up two or three years behind the progress of peers who stayed at home ? |
| 25 | But now back to Albert the Abo who stayed at home and painted , very successfully , his own place . |
| 26 | Following this last point it is significant that the birthrate tended throughout the nineteenth century to be highest in areas where employment opportunities for women were lowest , for it is likely that knowledge was more easily acquired by factory workers than by those in service or those who stayed at home . |
| 27 | Again , with a further five clients who remained at home for a while , the Ipswich development officer felt she could have continued home support but was overruled by others who preferred institutional care . |
| 28 | Not the other respectable brigade , and indeed in Eden End , the whole play turns on the jealousy of the sister , who remained at home . |
| 29 | People who work at home . |
| 30 | In the United States , economists calculate that those who work at home for outside contractors or involuntarily work part-time have doubled since 1980 to nearly 17 per cent of all workers . |