Example sentences of "not home [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gap was surely closing , and Crisp was not home yet . |
| 2 | To the question could we see her Daddy , she replied ‘ I am afraid Daddy is not home yet , Mummy is here , but I think you should see Nanny , she is looking after us . |
| 3 | Luke thought that , as his father plainly was not home yet , he would use his absence to do a little preliminary softening up of his mother , about plans for the summer . |
| 4 | ‘ No , he 's not home yet . ’ |
| 5 | I told her to be home reasonably early but she 's not home yet . |
| 6 | Yeah well he 's not home yet . |
| 7 | and I phoned one night late and , it was late and I phoned for I wanted her to come home , and I was it was quarter to twelve and said she 's not home yet . |
| 8 | In other experiments , Papi has shown that pigeons do not home accurately if their nostrils are blocked , or if their olfactory nerve is cut , or if they are experimentally distracted by a strong smell ; but other experimenters have failed to repeat these results and it has proved impossible to train pigeons to make the relevant olfactory distinctions ( which is a standard , and powerful , method of testing for sensory abilities — p. 43 . |
| 9 | Yeah , I know , but this is not Home Alone died in real life ! |
| 10 | I mean you 've got to keep the Home Fires Burning , Grin and Bear it , make him Feel Welcome — although see when he 's up at midnight frying eggs and he spatters grease all over my good ceramic hob I could brain him so I could — but I just tell myself he 's Not Home Forever and I bite my tongue . |