Example sentences of "could [not/n't] [verb] home [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blocked roads meant that many motorists could not get home for several hours . |
| 2 | We could n't go home for a month . |
| 3 | She could n't go home for money . |
| 4 | I could n't go home to my mother because the relationship was still very iffy , so I ended up going to a hostel . |
| 5 | But I could n't go home in the dark ! ’ |
| 6 | Something about there being no place like home but he could n't go home in the dark . |
| 7 | In another case Betty Jones who is 86 and unwell could n't cope with her senile husband of 83 , and because he could n't return home from the day centre a place had to be found for him . |
| 8 | And er she used to sell corned beef and er pickled onions or anything like that for people what was working round there what could n't get home for dinner . |