I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a home birth (= when a woman gives birth at home, not in a hospital )
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I decided I wanted a home birth for my second child.
a home game (= played at a team's own sports field )
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Next Saturday Liverpool have a home game against Manchester United.
a home match (= played at the place where a team usually practises )
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They have won their last five home matches.
a home remedy (= one that you make at home )
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Home remedies for colds include honey and lemon.
a home/car loan (= a loan to buy a home or a car )
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They took out a thirty-year home loan.
a luxury hotel/home/apartment
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They stayed at luxury hotels during their trip.
arrive home
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Jo should arrive home any minute now.
at home and abroad
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The books about Harry Potter have been very popular, both at home and abroad .
back home
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He was back home by half past eleven.
back home (= in the place that you come from and think of as your home )
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It reminded me of evenings back home.
be/get/come home early
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Your father said he’d be home early.
care home
children's home
coming home
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What time will you be coming home ?
convalescent home
enter the home stretch
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As they enter the home stretch of the campaign, the president’s lead has grown.
executive cars/homes etc
familiar/home ground (= a subject etc that you know something about )
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In his latest book, McManus returns to more familiar ground.
funeral home
go home
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There’s nothing more we can do here. Let’s go home .
heading home
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It’s about time we were heading home .
hit...home run
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I didn’t think I could hit a home run .
holiday home
home base
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The band’s home base is Seattle.
home brew
home care (= in people’s own homes )
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You can find home care through family service agencies.
home cooking (= food cooked at home, not in a restaurant )
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Home cooking always tastes best to me.
home economics
home fans (= fans at their own team’s sports field )
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The home fans cheered the team onto the pitch.
home front
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The film is set on the home front in 1943.
home ground (= the ground that belongs to a particular team )
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It’s their first defeat at their home ground all season.
home help
Home Information Pack
home leave (= time that you are allowed to spend at home from a job that is far away, for example in the army, or from prison )
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Roberts had failed to return from home leave, and there was a warrant out for his arrest.
home loan
home movie
Home Office, the
home office
home ownership
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The price of home ownership is increasing.
home plate
home room
home rule
home run
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I didn’t think I could hit a home run .
Home Secretary
home shopping (= buying things at home, for example from a catalogue )
home stretch
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as the election campaign headed into the home stretch
home town
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He hired a car and drove up to his home town.
home truth
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It’s time someone told him a few home truths .
home video
home/hotel/apartment etc
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This is a friendly and comfortable hotel.
homing device
homing pigeon
house/home insurance
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The damage may be covered by your house insurance.
international/home/UK etc market
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The domestic market makes up about 75% of their sales.
leave home/school/college etc
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How old were you when you left home your parents’ home ?
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My daughter got a job after she left school.
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The lawsuit will be postponed until the president leaves office .
live at home (= live with their parents )
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Most seventeen-year-olds still live at home .
lost...homes
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Hundreds of people lost their homes in the floods.
mobile home
motor home
move house/home British English (= go to live in a different house )
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My parents kept moving house because of my dad’s job.
nursing home
old folks' home
old people's home
remand home
residential home
rest home
retirement home
romp home British English
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The favourite, Badawi, romped home in the first race.
sb's childhood home
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Her childhood home was in North Dakota.
sb's family home (= where someone's family live and where they lived as a child )
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Her family home is in a village outside Derry.
sb's home/native city (= where they were born or grew up )
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He said that he never wanted to leave his home city.
sb’s home town (= the town where someone was born )
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He was buried in his home town of Leeds.
sb’s home/private address
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What’s your home address?
sb’s island home
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He had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
sb’s own/home turf (= the place that someone comes from or lives in )
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We beat Canada on their home turf.
second home
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town-dwellers who buy second homes in the countryside
see...home
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I’ll get Nick to see you home .
small office/home office
starter home
stately home
stay (at) home
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I decided to stay home.
straight home
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Go straight home and tell your mother.
struck home (= hit exactly where it should )
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The assassin’s bullet struck home .
taking...home
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Would you mind taking Susie home ?
the home team (= the team whose sports field a game is being played on )
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Hayward then increased the home team’s lead.
the home/domestic/family environment
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A lot of children suffer because of problems in their home environment.
told...a few home truths
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It’s time someone told him a few home truths .
trail in/home (= finish in a bad position )
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He trailed in last after a disastrous race.
walk...home
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It’s late – I’ll walk you home .
welcome home
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Hello, welcome home .
work from home
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Nowadays, many people are able to work from home .
your home/native country (= where you were born or live permanently )
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After five years in America, she returned to her home country, Japan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
foster
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After spending a night in a foster home , both girls went to spend Christmas with their grandparents.
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It relies on foster homes to provide rescued pets a supportive place to recover until good owners can be found.
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All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes , with very nice families.
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Four are living together in one foster home and are expected to be adopted by that family.
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Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes .
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Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home .
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The next day they came back and removed him to a temporary foster home .
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Another boy is in a regular private foster home .
mobile
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A 36-year-old woman died when a tornado swept through her mobile home .
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My dad was a minister, and we traveled a lot on weekends in a mobile home .
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Videos worth around forty thousand pounds were seized from a mobile home rental business and a number of vehicles.
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Some 70 mobile homes were flooded.
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Our mobile home was well equipped with two bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen.
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Hubert Hagen and Bill Dickson each own mobile homes south of the McNemars.
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A couple hiding in a wardrobe escaped unhurt after their mobile home flew 20 yards into a neighbour's house.
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The retired Internal Revenue Service employee paid $ 15, 500 for the two-bedroom mobile home on space 72.
new
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However, if you find you do start to lose fish mysteriously, then find a new home for the Pictus.
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A new rail line to the South Shore is opening the area to business and a flurry of new homes .
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However, a new home was now the big one.
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Or they moved to escape memories, to search for new lives and new homes .
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Problems with their original pitch mean they need a new home venue and are always looking for new members, including men.
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At their new home , across town, a residential place for the elderly, Jerome fit right in.
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The regional plan for the South-east proposes that some 57,000 new homes should be provided each year.
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But lower-priced new homes in entry-level Maryland bedroom communities like Bowie and Arnold are moving.
residential
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So the only thing there was, was to be in this hospital, or to go to a residential home .
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Being 18, I was too old for many children's homes and too young for adult residential homes.
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Finding your feet Many residential homes are almost like large families.
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The first few days in a residential home can be very frightening for many elderly people.
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There may also be problems for homosexuals in a residential home .
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That's where the growth is taking place in the residential homes .
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A person admitted to a residential home is joining a different social system, away from the family.
stately
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Not a single house in town could match the numerous stately homes in nearby Farmington or Simsbury.
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Compton House, another stately home , houses a fine collection of butterflies from all over the world.
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A visit to a stately home and certainly a game of Monopoly could not be pure fun, divorced from politics.
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Stately homes Much of the generality of what has been said about important religious buildings and castles is true about stately homes.
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I remember a stately home which proudly displayed a Nelson letter the original of which was in the National Maritime Museum.
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Twelve miles away at Goodwood, you can visit the racecourse, stately home , and country park.
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It was, of course, the perfect training for a housewife, even if the house in question were a stately home .
■ NOUN
care
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A home care assistant visits daily.
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In the last six months of 1994 we had 65 people on home care .
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In-service training, weekly group meetings and monthly supervision sessions were all provided for the home care aides.
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Spending most of each day in out-of-home care is a real risk factor for a baby.
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The night sitter left at 7 a.m. and the home care aide was due to come at 8 a.m.
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Long-term nursing home care insurance is prohibitively expensive.
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There are also plans to set up a Lothian-wide Information Service for people thinking about residential or nursing home care .
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The numbers of men, women and children covered by home care with 24 hour on call has doubled in a year.
game
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I think we only lost about 4 home games .
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That meant he and Joanne came to most every home game .
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Maybe I can make it to my first home game in 15 years!
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Thursday night is really, really the first home game for the Oakland Raiders.
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The bear used to go hunting, and bring home game for both of them.
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And with 20 of the team's 28 scheduled home games canceled, season-ticket holders are out about $ 464,000.
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Boro are likely to ask the Football League to postpone next Tuesday's rearranged home game against Barnsley.
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It is attached to the hotel where the Packers stay the night before their home games .
holiday
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He had his luxury mock-Tudor mansion in Purley, his holiday home in Tenerife.
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Cuendet, a company offering holiday homes in everything from converted castles to farmhouses, was the best bet.
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He would come back and find the heavy mob were selling Tombstone as holiday homes .
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The mill and workshops now form a large dwelling as well as holiday homes .
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Nestling in the hillside in the grounds of the Estate are some of the most exclusive holiday homes in the world.
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The brochures offer holiday homes costing from £55 a week and touring and camping facilities from as little as £3.60 a night.
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All Key classified holiday homes will provide at least some of the facilities found in those of a higher classification.
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For these are no ordinary holiday homes .
life
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Her honour is tarnished, her home life shattered, her future uncertain.
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She has a good day and a good home life where we value and support and teach her.
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But I've benefited enormously from having a stable, normal home life .
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As long as you set the proper goal: not integration with your home life , but separation from it.
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The reality is that a child is a time-consuming, all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life .
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One afternoon that summer, over lunch in the park, Anna talked about her home life .
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Is drinking making your home life unhappy? 2.
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Chess is not only a part of home life .
market
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In the home market , it led the field by a long way, with 4,337,487 units sold.
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The home market might be worried about it, and some more people are looking toward clones than Apple product.
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The company believes even the home market has been boosted by the housing recession, with people preferring to redecorate rather than move.
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The company also will demonstrate a new keyboard aimed at the home market that incorporates a built-in paper scanner.
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Credit card donations: Back on the ladder Stella Bingham First-timers spot bargains as home market moves at last.
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Acer is one of the few companies shipping a monitor of this size aimed at the home market .
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As well as increasing export earnings they also add to the pipeline network supplying the home market .
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Wooden hoops used on casks for the home market were usually of hazel and were produced by local firms from local timber.
nursing
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Owner Fred Davies is challenging the council after being refused permission to convert the ailing hotel into a nursing home .
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She was a patient at the Ashbury Lodge nursing home in Swindon in February.
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In its present form it is substantially an early eighteenth-century building, and now serves as a local nursing home .
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In the last decade the private sector has started to develop the amount of residential and nursing home care it provided.
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Meg thought of Eva Kovacks in the nursing home in Essex and knew who had the best life.
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After a lengthy period of care at home , she was first admitted to hospital, then to a nursing home.
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Trading places: Staff and residents at a nursing home near Middleton St George have raised more than £120 by trading places.
owner
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Three out of four home owners expressed concern about the greenhouse effect.
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Were they ministers, the funeral home owner , the largest landowner?
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The Royal Commission wants more grants for home owners to remove lead pipes.
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Inviting other home owners and managers to each home in turn indicates the extent to which this openness has developed.
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He also wanted to scrap the council tax discount offered to second-home owners .
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The next few days could decide the fate of thousands of hard-pressed workers, home owners and firms.
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For instance, home owners are challenging local authorities' proposed new contracts on the grounds that their terms are unfair.
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In some areas, both the client and social services will pay the home owner .
ownership
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At the same time home ownership became easier and the norm.
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The mortgage interest deduction promotes home ownership .
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More significant predictors, especially in recent elections, have been location and home ownership .
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Forbes would eliminate all loopholes, including the popular mortgage interest deduction aimed at encouraging home ownership .
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The home ownership rate among women continues to lag, Cisneros said at a news conference.
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Far from bringing an end to worry, home ownership became a struggle to stay in the place called home.
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Because the tax break for mortgage interest would disappear, the finances of home ownership would change.
run
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Even a Riddick Bowe victory over Holyfield next week is unlikely to make it any easier to give Lewis a home run .
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Obtained in an offseason trade with Atlanta, he had struggled most of the season offensively and only hit 12 home runs .
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The stalemate enabled the fallen champions to end a nine-match run of away defeats and extended Arsenal's poor home run.
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His home run was off lefty Yorkis Perez.
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Then Hank Aaron hit his first home run in an All-Star Game.
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Voila, Williamson set a home run record that lasted 35 years.
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The home run was his fourth of the spring.
side
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Tim Curtis top-scored for the home side with forty-five.
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But when Mike Mannion cut loose the home side collapsed to 127 all out.
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Having dominated the opening 10 minutes, the home side gave up.
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Alderley Edge side Icicals scored 186-6 when they visited Burnage, the home side managed 163-9 in reply.
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The home side went ahead through Thierry Henry in the first half and Nwankwo Kanu in the second.
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Not until the final quarter did the home side recover their composure, by which time it was way too late.
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The Cheshire player took 5-32 as the home side struggled.
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But a fine 61 from Martin Jones steered the home side to a thrilling win.
team
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The crowd also grows louder as the home team takes the lead or is on a run, which is fun.
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You have some one else on your home team .
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The home team was being booed off the court.
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The home team has not beaten the Scarlets for some dozen matches and should still have their work cut out to win.
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The home team won 8-0 and hooked Lawson, whose allegiance has never wavered.
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The home team was not quite as productive.
town
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C., and Paris, to move to his home town of Perry, Ga., after getting married.
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The 18-year-old blue eyed beauty will represent her home town at the Miss Ireland competition in Dublin later this year.
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Washington the landmark is mostly white, affluent, politically connected and frightened by the violence of the home town .
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It is outwardly then a buoyant picture: a long-established family firm mindful of its responsibility to its home town .
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It's in his adopted home town that I first witness him.
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The outskirts of her home town excited her as a magical cavern will a child.
way
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If I lost her, we would never find our way home .
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The girl had insisted on driving her all the way home .
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Could something have happened to her on the way home last night?
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Young Dan Tennant, a farm labourer from Bakers Farm was on his way home for lunch.
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On her way home , she tossed her diaphragm in the first bin at Kennedy Airport.
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The next day he and another Bengali boy who lives near by chose another way home , hoping to escape the attackers.
■ VERB
build
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How, they will be able to build a home , community for themselves remains uncertain.
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Others purchase sites, and a few have even built small homes on foundations.
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But women you want to keep a hold of, to share and build a home with, these are not allowed.
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My parents had built a pleasant little home for $ 6, 000 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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I like building my nest at home .
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Farrakhan, upon his return, said he would accept the money to build homes , factories and schools.
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They alleged they were misled about the cost of building their own luxury homes .
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Neswood-Gishey and her husband are building a new home in a village about 50 miles away.
feel
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But it is here, at this Hillcrest hospital, where he feels at home .
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This immediate social environment is merely that in which he feels at home .
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Those elements are inherent in Hispanic culture, making people such as Thomas feel at home .
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It made him feel more at home .
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Though the rector had been here but once before, he felt instantly at home .
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I think it will make our international clientele feel at home .
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Amelia felt at home and fitted in.
leave
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What a strange feeling to be leaving Gateshead, my home for the whole of my childhood!
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One last word about emergency rooms. Leave jewelry at home and bring only enough money to pay the required fees.
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Who could ever have left a home where Christopher was growing up?
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They left their first temporary home last fall when the overcrowded camp ran out of fresh water and space.
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Meirion desperately needed more remunerative work and was on the point of leaving his home town.
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But sometimes he forgets and leaves them at home .
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He takes pride in clearing his desk at 5.30p.m. and leaving for home .
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Barry Bonds not withstanding, major-leaguers generally leave their parents at home .
move
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Rabbits are not territorial creatures to the extent of evicting other rabbits moving into their home ground from further afield.
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C., and Paris, to move to his home town of Perry, Ga., after getting married.
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As soon as it is sold the 58-year-old widow plans to move into the mobile home in nearby Laguna Beach.
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Would they move to his home , to servant quarters behind his house?
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As the deep black shadow in Glen Keltney closed over them, they moved slowly nearer home in a trance of fatigue.
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The couple returned to the United States and moved into a small home in Copperas Cove.
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He has one small child and wants to move to a bigger home in order to have some more.
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It will give victims of the temblor additional time to find new housing or move back into homes still under repair.
own
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Nearly Bthree-quarters of whites own their homes , compared with 45. 8 % of Bblacks and 43 % of Latinos.
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I own my own home . l own another home in Lake Tahoe. l have stocks.
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Except during tours, the privately owned homes are not open to the public.
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Midlanders value owning their own home more than Southerners, who think that freedom is important.
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Cisneros said psychological factors also prevent some women from owning homes .
work
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However, a large proportion of married women do work outside the home , particularly in part-time work.
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MacArthur says that the husband alone should work outside the home .
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She's still in business, but now she's a one woman band working at home from her garage.
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Local artisans, working close to home , often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
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But I could always work from home .
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Besides, the boss has either taken the day off or is working from home or at a satellite office.
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Every educator has a personal story to tell from working in our home care teams.
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The findings also suggest that recession and growing parental responsibility have resulted in fewer legalized women immigrants working outside the home .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Englishman's home is his castle
bring home the bacon
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But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
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Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
broken home
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He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
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Helen knew plenty about broken homes, because she came from one.
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J., the product of a broken home.
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Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
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The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes, and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
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They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
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Vitro knows all about being dirt poor in the rural South and growing up in a broken home.
charity begins at home
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After all, charity begins at home.
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Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
close to home
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And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.
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Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.
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For a third it might be a school close to home.
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It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.
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Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
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She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.
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Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
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Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.
dream house/home/job etc
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A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
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But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
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Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
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Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
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It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
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John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
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Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
drive sth home
drum sth home
eat sb out of house and home
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Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
foster home
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All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
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Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
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For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
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Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
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Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.
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She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
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This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
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When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
hammer sth home
hearth and home
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the joys of hearth and home
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Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
hit home
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All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
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By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
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His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
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His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.
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I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent.
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It should hit home to people to take precautions.
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They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
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Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
nothing to write home about
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Jim and Marcia's new house is nothing to write home about.
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A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
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Three, it is nothing to write home about ... Home ... What's the first thing you remember?
peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc
press home your advantage
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Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
press sth home
ram sth home
sb's chickens come home to roost
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Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost .
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Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost .
sb's chickens have come home to roost
sb's spiritual home
scrape home
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The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.
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The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
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A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.
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Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
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In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.
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Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.
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We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.
set up home/house
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All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
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And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
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Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
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Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
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The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
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These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
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Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
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Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
strike home
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And then those two words struck home.
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It must have struck home in some way.
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Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.
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That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
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The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
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The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.
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Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
the home/final stretch
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As the debate moves into the final stretch , Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
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Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
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I was tired on the home stretch , but the crowd was wonderful.
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The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
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The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
till the cows come home
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They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110,000 new homes for low-paid workers.
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Buying your first home is a very important step.
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Her home , she said, was in Hong Kong, but she hadn't been there since she was a child.
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I've lived in Madrid for many years, and it feels like home to me now.
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I never wanted to put my mother in a home .
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It took us about ten years to think of Atlanta as home .
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People like to feel secure in their own homes.
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She was born in Italy, but she's made Charleston her home .
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The restaurant isn't far from our home , so it's convenient.
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The tax rate depends on when the home was purchased.
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They grew up in a children's home in Ohio.
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They want to build forty luxury homes on a disused railway site.
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To raise the extra money they had to sell the family home .
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You need to maintain a good balance between your home life and career.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And owners note a perceptible increase in door-hangers, fliers and other pleas from agents to put their homes up for sale.
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Any readers attempting to furnish a home should find ample material in the September issue.
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In fact, he finds that he is able to get a great deal of work done at home on these days.
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It is the home of that most Freudian of plants, the coco-de-mer.
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Their homes are mobile in name only.
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They were cared for by friends at their home in nearby Witney.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
arrive
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When Alice arrived home , she counted what she had.
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When Jim arrived home from work, Della told Jim what she had done to buy his Christmas present.
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When she arrived home she had found Larry polishing his shoes at the table.
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You arrive home , unlock the door, and realize you are very hot and sweaty.
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When he arrived home a year later it was too late.
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My son arrived home from a summer of camp just a few weeks ago.
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Role play: Excuses Thinking Situation: A parent is very angry because their son or daughter has arrived home late.
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Judy Boone arrived home to find 28 dead sheep pressed against her fence.
bring
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Being for once in the mood to get things right, Phoebe had brought home from the library a book about dragonflies.
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Go on down there with the boys and bring home some supper.
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Life had become easier ... but this was only as she saw it, as Dorothy brought home to her.
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He brings home the books that have been given to him by his boss for preparation.
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Our room was an ark, and I had no wish for the dove to bring home a green leaf.
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She brought home a large jar of holy water from the cathedral.
come
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You come home in agony because, apparently, few people learn to do it well.
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When she comes home , I tell her.
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As the first curl of smoke rose into the air, the full enormity of what was happening came home to Sara.
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Perhaps I will come home for Easter.
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My father is lucky to be coming home alive and unharmed.
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Martin Bean did not come home .
drive
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I got into the van and drove home like a zombie.
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But then, as I drive home after a failed chase, I can enjoy the sight of the sunset.
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She drove home through further rain.
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He felt proud of himself as he drove home .
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Strange the tricks that life plays, I mused as I drove home , popping the tape of madrigals into the player.
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The Protestant yeomanry still rode around the countryside intent on driving home the lessons of 1798: Rebellion will be punished!
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Kate drove home in a stupor.
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The first couple of times I picked him up he hardly looked at me as we drove home .
fly
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On Monday she flew home to London, to her flat, her office, her own business, her friends.
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He got permission to fly home to Detroit for a look-see at his troubled right ankle.
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Carwyn was flying home , Ted was working on his self-esteem, Richie was nursing a broken nose.
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I remember in the early days flying home from one of my infrequent trips to the outside world.
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Mr Major has now flown home to deal with the economic crisis.
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While flying home I sat next to a senior executive with a large international organization.
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On the Sunday I flew home .
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Then he expects her to run when they fly home .
get
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It started when I got home from hospital after having my baby.
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I said I had to get home .
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I never eat anything when I get home .
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When you get home , start your homework right away.
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His mother was out again when he got home that afternoon.
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Because police had cordoned off Lake Drive, she was unable to get home to check on her ranch.
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I would get home at about 7.30 in the evening and I still had to do my homework.
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As soon as she gets home from work, she goes there and closes the door.
go
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It made him feel he was going home .
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Visitors to the camps went home with dismal stories to relate....
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You know, this has been a charming evening, but I must go home .
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Now that he wants to go home , the money stops coming.
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A few dozen herring here or there; nobody troubled: every child went home with a few dozen herring on a string.
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I want him to go home .
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Needless to say, I went home and apologised for being late.
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I want you to go home tonight and take a good look at yourself in the mirror, fully clothed.
hammer
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He was here to hammer home plans to spend more on education.
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If not, the Internal Revenue Service certainly hammered home the message.
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That lesson was hammered home by a 1995 Louis Harris and Associates poll commissioned by the Shriners.
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But the vice-president kept hammering home his belief that every vote cast in Florida should be counted before the presidency is awarded.
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This is hardly surprising, given the way governments the world over have for decades hammered home the dogma of prohibition.
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The real danger of these rigs was hammered home recently during a small Open match which saw me ducking for shelter.
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That is precisely the message that our consumer society implicitly hammers home .
head
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Wright conceded a corner after tipping over Johnson's header and Wark rose unmarked to head home the equaliser.
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Having done our bit to fend off a recession we head home , masters of our fates.
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After work, all the men went out together to drink before heading home .
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My parents locked up and headed home .
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Boyd's cross from the left was flicked in by Nicholas.Saints broke immediately and Redford soared to head home Maskrey's cross.
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His teammates were long gone, headed home to celebrate the biggest victory of their pro careers.
hit
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She could see that her remark had hit home .
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His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
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Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home .
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By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home .
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His foot hit home , sinking deep into the little man's belly.
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All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
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And to go back to your start-up page hit Home.
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Then her words seemed to hit home .
press
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Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
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For a complete forward search, press Home Home up arrow to reach the first page before pressing F2.
reach
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When they reached home , happy and a little tipsy, they drank cocoa in the kitchen, then went to separate rooms.
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When they reached home it was dusk, and the street looked shabbier than ever.
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Her backache got much worse, and when she reached home she was ready to collapse with pain and exhaustion.
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She found out what they must do next in order to reach home safely.
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By the time Mark reached home that evening, the pains in his head were excruciating.
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Although I felt like murdering her at the time I regretted having hit her long before I reached home .
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Yanto's mind was in a turmoil when he reached home that night.
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She cycled quickly along the lane out of the town, hoping to reach home before the storm burst.
return
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Fifthly, the disappointment at not returning home becomes another loss.
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Everywhere, refugees are beginning to return home .
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It is true that Jacob will emerge more than just unscathed from the danger that fills his mind as he returns home .
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In November of 1969 John Wade returned home with a great many decorations.
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The pensioner was later treated in hospital and was taken to a nursing home because she was too distressed to return home.
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He hoped to escape El Paso, do great things, and return home a hero.
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Mandru's agent had been outbid, however, and he'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed.
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Since the children know they need their parents desperately, they attempt to return home after being deserted.
run
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Oliver, who had a natural distaste for policemen, crossed the road and ran home , on the other side.
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But his eyes, dey get muy grande and he take to feet an try to run home .
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He ran home , blood trickling down his left cheek.
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Terror-stricken, I dropped my fragrant booty and ran home .
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Then I ran home as fast as I could.
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I run home , skipping and humming to myself.
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The appellant had used offensive language to a 12 year old girl who had run home and complained to her father.
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She ran home sobbing at lunch time.
send
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The first group was sent home in a widely criticised night operation two weeks ago.
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Everyone was sent home with the assignment to draft a proposed definition.
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When he refused he was sent home , with lavish presents, to complete his task.
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If Sean forgot the sheet or if it was not signed, he was sent home .
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At the same time he arranged for Burgess to be sent home to extricate Maclean before the net closed.
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Some 800, 000 federal workers were sent home for six days in November.
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The recently arrived cultural attache, Ian Sloane, was among the diplomats to be sent home .
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Finally, a substantial number of Volunteers were sent home for disciplinary reasons.
stay
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Best of all, Joe was sure of being able to stay home after his trip.
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Women could stay home and have kids.
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David had not gone to his office, had stayed home to help her.
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Whichever way we say this, any sensible person knows that the staying home is because of the rain.
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Many sympathisers stayed home at the last election, no longer fearing that Jose
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Maybe it was nothing more than the statistical impossibility of everyone staying home all of the time.
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And what about women who want to stay home with their children?
strike
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Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home .
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And then those two words struck home .
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That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home .
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It must have struck home in some way.
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The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
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The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home .
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Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
walk
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I was walking home , a chore, accomplished, looking forward to nothing to do.
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He walked home , oddly troubled.
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She was walking home near Colbayns School when a man approached her and asked the time.
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Couples walked home from late dinners.
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A few people were about, returning from church or walking home with a newspaper or a neatly wrapped pastry.
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He walked home and told his mother his adventures.
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Encouraged by reflecting on these events, we walked home arm in arm.
write
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He often writes home about his window boxes.
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I was thrilled, and I promptly wrote home .
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In May the Girls would sit out on the steel fire escapes during shows and write home complaining about the unaccustomed heat.
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Stewart wrote home in late 1937.
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When she wrote home , as she now did regularly, she wrote believing herself to be very contented.
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I wrote home that this place made Tijuana look like Palm Springs.
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A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
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Letters are written home , and before the night seems settled, dawn is breaking and another day begins.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Englishman's home is his castle
bring home the bacon
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But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon .
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Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
bring home the bacon
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But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
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Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
broken home
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He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
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Helen knew plenty about broken homes, because she came from one.
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J., the product of a broken home.
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Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
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The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes, and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
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They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
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Vitro knows all about being dirt poor in the rural South and growing up in a broken home.
charity begins at home
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After all, charity begins at home.
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Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
close to home
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And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.
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Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.
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For a third it might be a school close to home.
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It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.
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Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
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She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.
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Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
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Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.
dream house/home/job etc
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A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
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But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
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Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
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Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
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It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
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John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
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Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
drive sth home
drum sth home
eat sb out of house and home
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Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
foster home
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All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
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Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
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For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
▪
Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
▪
Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.
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She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
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This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
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When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
hammer sth home
hearth and home
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the joys of hearth and home
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Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
hit home
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All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
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By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
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His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
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His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.
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I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent.
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It should hit home to people to take precautions.
▪
They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
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Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
nothing to write home about
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Jim and Marcia's new house is nothing to write home about.
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A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
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Three, it is nothing to write home about ... Home ... What's the first thing you remember?
peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc
press home your advantage
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Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
press sth home
ram sth home
sb's chickens come home to roost
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Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost .
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Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost .
sb's chickens have come home to roost
sb's spiritual home
scrape home
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The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.
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The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
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A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.
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Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
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In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.
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Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.
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We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.
set up home/house
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All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
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And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
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Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
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Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
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The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
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These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
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Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
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Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
strike home
▪
And then those two words struck home.
▪
It must have struck home in some way.
▪
Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.
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That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
▪
The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
▪
The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.
▪
Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
the home/final stretch
▪
As the debate moves into the final stretch , Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
▪
Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
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I was tired on the home stretch , but the crowd was wonderful.
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The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
▪
The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
till the cows come home
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They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Come straight home after the theatre, won't you?
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He cleans the offices after all the workers have gone home .
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You can take the laptop home with you if you like.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And then he blagged a twin-engined Squirrel helicopter to take him home from a rugby match.
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Dreamer placed Tallis on the snow, facing south, facing home .
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Extra ferries are needed to bring them back home .
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She herself went home for the night.
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The day of the trial, I stayed home .
III. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Englishman's home is his castle
bring home the bacon
▪
But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon .
▪
Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
bring home the bacon
▪
But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon.
▪
Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
charity begins at home
▪
After all, charity begins at home.
▪
Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
dream house/home/job etc
▪
A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
▪
But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
▪
Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
▪
Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
▪
It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
▪
John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
▪
Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
drive sth home
drum sth home
eat sb out of house and home
▪
Our sixteen-year-old is eating us out of house and home.
hammer sth home
hearth and home
▪
the joys of hearth and home
▪
Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
hit home
▪
All of a sudden the hollowness of our triumph over nature hit home with striking effect.
▪
By the early 1970s, this realization had already hit home.
▪
His comment hit home for me, as both therapist and layperson.
▪
His foot hit home, sinking deep into the little man's belly.
▪
I hit home at a Liverpool city centre newsagent.
▪
It should hit home to people to take precautions.
▪
They spend much of the book showing how various companies have used them to hit home runs or strike out.
▪
Within hours, the reality of the situation had hit home.
nothing to write home about
▪
Jim and Marcia's new house is nothing to write home about.
▪
A few long-range efforts, but nothing to write home about.
▪
Three, it is nothing to write home about ... Home ... What's the first thing you remember?
press home your advantage
▪
Will its foes use the occasion of Kabila s death to press home their advantage?
press sth home
ram sth home
sb's chickens come home to roost
▪
Their extravagant overspending has come home to roost .
▪
Eventually, of course, the chickens came home to roost .
sb's chickens have come home to roost
scrape home
▪
The Green Party scraped home in the local elections.
▪
The referees decided that Foreman had just scraped home.
▪
A poll for the Peterborough Evening Telegraph suggests that the Tories will scrape home.
▪
Even so, two of them scraped home without reaching the quota.
▪
In 1964 the All Blacks defeated Leinster 11-5, they won 17-8 in 1972 and scraped home 8-3 in 1974.
▪
Then they are inside, waiting while he scrapes home the bolts.
▪
We scraped home by the skin of our teeth.
set up home/house
▪
All the costs of getting a mortgage, moving and setting up home can run into thousands.
▪
And he set up house for her in a bungalow further along the river, in a nice secluded part.
▪
Desmond Wilcox was a grown man when he chose to leave his wife and children and set up home with Esther.
▪
Nor do I think that it is disgraceful if two men of a loving disposition should set up home together.
▪
The two new Mr and Mrs Kim-Soons set up house next door.
▪
These nests will shortly be visited by the female in whose larger territory the various males have set up home.
▪
Thousands of them have set up home in the eaves of this house in Banbury.
▪
Why not just leave - set up home in a more tolerant spiritual pew?
strike home
▪
And then those two words struck home.
▪
It must have struck home in some way.
▪
Some of the things Edgar had said had struck home.
▪
That was a shot in the dark, but judging from the expression on his face it struck home.
▪
The flinty look in Pargeter's face told Dexter that Blanche had struck home in some way.
▪
The simple idea that resources ought to be concentrated in areas where unemployment is highest has struck home.
▪
Young soccer star Stephen Kilgour strikes home a penalty shot during the interval at Darlington's home match on Saturday.
the home/final stretch
▪
As the debate moves into the final stretch , Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
▪
Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
▪
I was tired on the home stretch , but the crowd was wonderful.
▪
The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
▪
The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
till the cows come home
▪
They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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home appliances
▪
Home furnishings are on the second floor next to the toy department.
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a home game
▪
The company has decided to expand in the home computer market.
IV. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
family
▪
Final phase of the approval process to build 28 single-#family homes on 14.18 acres.
▪
Newton and Marie Shank received final approval to build 10 single-#family homes on 17.35 acres. 11.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Englishman's home is his castle
bring home the bacon
▪
But, you know, we were the enemy, or something and he was out to bring home the bacon .
▪
Local boys Hong Kong made good their pledge to bring home the bacon for retiring coach Jim Rowark.
broken home
▪
He was the product of a broken home and therefore a single-parent child.
▪
Helen knew plenty about broken homes, because she came from one.
▪
J., the product of a broken home.
▪
Over 28 years I've had two broken marriages and broken homes, family and friends.
▪
The majority of offenders do not come from disturbed or broken homes, and many broken homes do not produce delinquents.
▪
They came from broken homes and were desperate to help struggling mums.
▪
Vitro knows all about being dirt poor in the rural South and growing up in a broken home.
charity begins at home
▪
After all, charity begins at home.
▪
Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home.
close to home
▪
And interestingly, the pictures these two picked are close to home.
▪
Even closer to home is the enchanting beauty of the Craigendarroch Country Estate.
▪
For a third it might be a school close to home.
▪
It is important, however, to have a source of money close to home.
▪
Local artisans, working close to home, often met the essential needs of the nearby population.
▪
She says it was too close to home and it could easily have been them.
▪
Some commute long distances while others work close to home.
▪
Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home.
dream house/home/job etc
▪
A palace, Carolyn told herself, a dream house.
▪
But just a couple of days after they moved into their dream home in Quedgeley, it was stolen and torched.
▪
Cracking up ... the dream home that's become a couple's nightmare.
▪
Finally, my family had a dream home and I had my own room with a view of Mount Fuji.
▪
It was all preparation for her dream job: a foreign correspondent, roaming the world in a trench coat.
▪
John Combes and his wife lived out their lives in their dream house, and their children stayed here until the 1760s.
▪
Sadly, they were forced to rent their dream house to tenants for the $ 25 monthly mortgage.
foster home
▪
All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
▪
Another boy is in a regular private foster home.
▪
For eight or nine months Mike was shunted from foster home to foster home.
▪
Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
▪
Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes.
▪
She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
▪
This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
▪
When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
hearth and home
▪
the joys of hearth and home
▪
Though there were undercurrents here, I was absorbed by the sense of family, the polished details of hearth and home.
peace-loving/fun-loving/home-loving etc
sb's chickens have come home to roost
sb's spiritual home
the home/final stretch
▪
As the debate moves into the final stretch , Britain is not without its bargaining cards either.
▪
Clinton also had two personal strikes against him as he went into the home stretch toward the July Democratic convention.
▪
I was tired on the home stretch , but the crowd was wonderful.
▪
The debate is a milestone signalling the final stretch in the campaign leading to the caucuses.
▪
The van laboured its way up the final stretch of the brae, its engine protesting at the strain.
till the cows come home
▪
They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Decoys that can confuse the homing sensor in the interceptor are the Achilles' heel of this system.