Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] home from " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 26-year-old midfielder has flown home from Italy while recovering from a knee operation to help in the kitchen of his wife Rachel 's Italian restaurant Amici Mia in Wolverhampton . |
| 2 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 3 | A NORTH Belfast student has come home from her first attempt at the British Long Distance Swimming Championships with a medal . |
| 4 | VETERAN film star Glenn Ford has gone home from hospital after two months of fighting for his life . |
| 5 | THE woman shot seconds before a siege started in Darlington has gone home from hospital . |
| 6 | A man who nearly died after being stabbed in an unprovoked attack , has returned home from hospital . |
| 7 | when we got home we sat eating we 'd got home from a show then and we were sat eating supper , and it were about half past three in the morning and we sat talking , I said to Rudy I 'm sure I can smell burning ! |
| 8 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 9 | Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school |
| 10 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 11 | Sometimes when I 've come home from the pictures and I let myself in , it 's so quiet I 'd nearly talk to the statues for company . ’ |
| 12 | She had not travelled for pleasure since she had come home from her long sojourn and she had wiped out of her memory the simple delights of hot sun and cheap wine . |
| 13 | Rose Brady had come home from Glasgow to nurse her father and stayed on irresolutely after his death , one day stretching into days . |
| 14 | She would usually leave the house after we had come home from school at four p.m . |
| 15 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 16 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |
| 17 | She had come home from school with Antonia . |
| 18 | It was after her mother had come home from a solitary trip to Rome . |
| 19 | It was Scott who launched McWilliams on his Irish career after he had come home from England where he had made his start and Pat stayed with Scott for two and a half years before moving on . |
| 20 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 21 | Being for once in the mood to get things right , Phoebe had brought home from the library a book about dragonflies . |
| 22 | When I eventually got home the crumpet packet was lying empty on the kitchen floor while Bilbo Baggins , the new puppy my daughters had brought home from the dogs ' home , was lying full beside it . |
| 23 | He 'd had no such doubts when embracing that model Keeley had brought home from the Art School . |
| 24 | She had gone home from the Forest Supermarket to find the house on fire . |
| 25 | I must have been about nine , but I still remember my dad putting his back to the door , after Pikey had gone home from a seance . |
| 26 | By late November some 800,000 Yemeni workers had returned home from Saudi Arabia , with adverse consequences for Yemen 's vital remittance income . |
| 27 | Keith Miller , prosecuting , said Mr Wray had returned home from the pub on a Sunday afternoon and approached Youngs ' friend to discuss a damaged fence . |
| 28 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 29 | Now they plan to take a year off and travel round the world , like their friend Nick Blunden , who 's come home from his travels , unloading a sackful of memories . |
| 30 | I mean for a it 's a habit , why he walks like that because he 's come home from the Duke so many times pissed in n it ? |