Example sentences of "it home [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten-year-old Luke Johnson dug it up and thinking it was ‘ dead ’ , planned to take it home as an ornament . |
| 2 | He recalled once buying a foal and taking it home on the bus ! |
| 3 | But erm , I ca n't take it home on my bike . |
| 4 | Travelling to several countries over the last year , has brought it home to me how disastrous are the effects , worldwide , of the virus causing AIDS . |
| 5 | I can take comfort in this , knowing that my Lord has entered into our humanity and brought it home to God . |
| 6 | I did n't like the feeling ; it brought it home to me how much you are judged by how you look , all the time , and how weird it feels when you are talking to this compere , and all the time you know he is n't listening to a word you are saying , just looking down your cleavage . |
| 7 | And he went out and defied the Count and slew him , and smote off his head and carried it home to his father . |
| 8 | Even so I smuggled it home to England just because it was banned . |
| 9 | George made a deprecating sound , but she held up her hand to silence him and then continued , ‘ I 'm happy enough at Uncle Nathan 's , although coming back has brought it home to me how much I miss country life . |
| 10 | This was to promote the cause of anti-Tory tactical voting , and to bring it home to Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock that they needed each other . |
| 11 | It was all very violent and distressing to observe at close quarters and the stench really brought it home to me . |
| 12 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 13 | It often takes something like a heart attack , as in your case , to bring it home to people to stop smoking . |
| 14 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 15 | It is the task of the Holy Spirit to take the revelation God as given to us through Jesus Christ , and to bring it home to us step by step , as we 're able to grasp it . |
| 16 | I suppose it brought it home to me . ’ |
| 17 | It is just that being shown into the library , which has been shut up these many years , perhaps brought it home to me how very sad it was for … ’ |
| 18 | When they got it home to Suffolk , they discovered a small black-bound notebook containing the Diary of Henry Oakeley for the years 1869–1871 . |
| 19 | It just brings it home to you that it can happen anywhere , ’ said a colleague . |
| 20 | At the weekend I received a letter and a petition from a young girl called Frances aged nine years old and it brought it home to me that it is n't an adult centred er erm issue , that it 's one for everybody who lives in Leicestershire . |
| 21 | I think the main thing is there 's about six hours sort of realistically speaking of really good quality hours to be on your B M S set during the day , and just to sort of add up the hours that you are actually on the phone making outgoing calls , sort of brings it home to you . |
| 22 | And it did bring it home to me that we have got a major security problem in this building and in our other municipal buildings and quite frankly the ease with which anybody can come into this building at virtually any time of the day or evening astounds me . |
| 23 | Er but I say it , I was just using that as an example of how it brought it home to me how easy it is to get in . |
| 24 | ‘ To ram it home to you in no uncertain terms that I was sexually active , and very much considered desirable by other women . ’ |
| 25 | That brought it home to us just what we were involved in . ’ |
| 26 | Did you have to take it home to your parents ? |
| 27 | Well , we 're doing everything we can to bring it home to them . |
| 28 | If I buy something nice , I 'll wear it home for you . ’ |
| 29 | Jessica announced she felt pissed and would have to go onto lemonade or leave the car outside the Amsterdam all night — which raised guffaws as to what she thought she 'd find left of it the morrow — and Mallachy offered to drive it home for her for twenty quid plus his taxi back , although he did n't have a licence . |
| 30 | ‘ If I managed to get it home with the help of a cabbie we must be able to move it between the two of us . |