Example sentences of "[pron] have [vb pp] home from " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Margery 's conversation with her husband when she has come home from the Exhibition |
| 4 | She had gone home from the Forest Supermarket to find the house on fire . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had come home from school with Antonia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | She would usually leave the house after we had come home from school at four p.m . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |