Example sentences of "[adv] come home " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel as if I 'll always have somewhere to come home to . |
| 2 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ And I think you 'd better come home . ’ |
| 4 | It was now that the assurances of 1918 that the pact would be for one election only came home to roost ; wanting to be ready in plenty of time , many local parties were by 1921 selecting candidates who would oppose sitting Coalition Liberals . |
| 5 | Their husbands , they said , only came home once a year , to father more children . |
| 6 | I only came home at week-ends … " |
| 7 | The second time they did this , it suddenly came home to Grant just how terrified Jim Miller and his pal must have been , unarmed and defenceless , the night they had made their escape bid . |
| 8 | And er , er , an an and as I say I had , like , this was only coming home from school like , you know . |
| 9 | I had tried to ignore the disappearance of my abdominal muscles , the sagging of my pectorals , but it was all coming home to me now . |
| 10 | " Better come home , then , instead of here . |
| 11 | Just yet , and so come home to dinner |
| 12 | But mistaken loan decisions or pricing policies swiftly come home to roost in an organisation with a balance sheet of only a few hundred million . |
| 13 | I was longing to say no when she rang on Sunday but simply could not — she is married to a German and only comes home to Scotland once a year because of the costs , and I know how much she likes to come through to see the shops and friends . |
| 14 | At the end of the first lap Walker was 30 metres clear and eventually came home 200 metres ahead of Reid who finished on 9:6.8 , 28 second adrift with Egeler finishing third further eight seconds in arrears . |
| 15 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 16 | She briefly told them what had occurred , and asked the lad to look for me and tell me that I must go to the police station and not come home without an officer for protection . |
| 17 | Now the air raid was over and still her husband and daughter had not come home . |
| 18 | In the morning Tobermory had still not come home . |
| 19 | ‘ When did you learn that your uncle had not come home ? ’ |
| 20 | She thought she might find Oliver sleeping on the couch which he sometimes did if he came late and did not want to disturb her , but he had not come home . |
| 21 | Emmie looked into her father 's room but the bed was still made : he had not come home last night . |
| 22 | I 'd rather him not travel it , I 'd rather him stop here on Sunday and not come home so that he 's got ample rest , cos he 's not getting it I , I , I du n no , I , I might be wrong , but he moans at me cos I knock me |
| 23 | In her presence , after almost a year , and in a foreign country at that , I felt I had finally come home . |
| 24 | Five years after being kidnapped in Beirut the last of the US hostages had finally come home . |
| 25 | Overnight the full force of what might have happened had finally come home to Elise , and she 'd spent most of the day clucking round her young sister like a hen with one chick . |
| 26 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 27 | He drove them to the station and they returned , sad for their sister and still not convinced that it was better for her not to come home . |
| 28 | The child might prefer not to come home alone . |
| 29 | Ruth Atucehene , an immigrant from Ghana , said : ‘ I had just come home from church and I was in the house with my children . ’ |
| 30 | To make sure that he has n't just come home I telephoned twice this afternoon , and again just before I left to come here . |