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Example sentences for "went home"

  • And so after writing to my father by the post about the endeavour to come to a composition with my uncle, though a very bad one, desiring him to be contented therewith, I went home to supper and to bed.

  • So, having ruled for twelve years, he went home, and although be lived to a great old age, he never returned again to Georgia.

  • More trouble seemed likely to follow, but some of Leisler's soldiers had already had enough, so they laid down their arms and went home.

  • He went home "to render an account of the present deplorable state of affairs" to King William.

  • So I went home with my better half, bearing my late literary acquisition in my hand.

  • Smashing his pipe he left his tankard untasted on the table, went home, and became an altered man.

  • We were once Catholics and carried Saint Colman of Cloyne about wid us in a box; but after hearing a sermon at a church about images, we went home, took the saint out of his box and cast him into a river.

  • Having staid here as long as I thought fit, to my infinite content, it being the greatest pleasure I could wish now to see at Court, I went home, leaving them dancing.

  • After all this I went home on foot to lay up my money, and change my stockings and shoes.

  • In Cheapside there was a great many bonfires, and Bow bells and all the bells in all the churches as we went home were a-ringing.

  • All the afternoon with my Lord, going up and down the town; at seven at night he went home, and there the principal Officers of the Navy, among the rest myself was reckoned one.

  • Till the close of day Manawyddan waited for him, and when the sun was fast sinking, he went home, thinking that he had strayed far.

  • Then he went home to the Black Rogue's wife, and told her that her husband was dead, and that he was ready to marry her if she liked.

  • Hanging his head, he went home, but he told no one what had befallen him.

  • This speech affected all present very much; with the exception of the old General, who only bowed and did not speak: but when he went home he was heard muttering "Magny sans tache, Magny sans tache!

  • Then we went home to Mrs. Fitzsimons, who drove out in her chair to the Phoenix Park, where a review was, and where numbers of the young gentry were round about her; to all of whom she presented me as her preserver of the day before.

  • As soon as my task was done at the office, I went home to the books, and worked away at them until supper.

  • I got my appointment of Consul to Venice, and I went home to wait for my passport and to spend the last days, so full of civic trouble, before I should set out for my post.

  • Thence by coach to my Uncle Wight's with my wife, but they being out of doors we went home, where, after I had put some papers in order and entered some letters in my book which I have a mind to keep, I went with my wife to see Sir W.

  • So I went home, and there understand that my mother is come home well from Brampton, and had a letter from my brother John, a very ingenious one, and he therein begs to have leave to come to town at the Coronacion.

  • So back again, and after a song or two in my chamber in the dark, which do (now that the bed is out) sound very well, I went home and to bed.

  • So after staying an hour with him, we went home and to supper, and so to prayers and bed.

  • So I went home, where I found my house now very clean, which was great content to me.

  • That done, there being nothing pleasant but the foolery of the farce, we went home.

  • Why, he went home to his father, and he, like a loving and tender-hearted father, received him into his house.

  • Then he went home, and when he came there he saw, as it were, a large church surrounded by palaces.

  • When he went home he found all their former splendour restored, and his wife overjoyed at their good fortune.

  • Then he went home, and his father was so pleased with him that his feast of welcome was even more splendid than the one before.

  • We returned to Allen the answer we had received, and he, conceiving all further attempts to be useless, went home.

  • Nettles at length abandoned the chase--went home, and Allen, all in tatters, came in.

  • When we got to a cornfield near the town, my brother secreted me till he could go and ascertain how my case stood; and finding that the old King was absent, and that all was peaceable, he returned to me, and I went home joyfully.

  • The Indian, vexed and disappointed, went home, and the next day reported that he saw her have fire in her mouth, and that she was a witch.

  • We each had our latch-keys and I went home either by myself or with a partner.

  • When supper was over, I made my best curtsy and, after presenting my father to the Prince, went home to bed.

  • I made him write them down for me, and we discussed religion, preachers and politics at some length before I went home.

  • So, at almost 12 o'clock, and my eyes tired with seeing to write, I went home and to bed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    sifted flour; still greater; that law; the hand; the word; thou shalt not die; went abroad; went afterwards; went aloft; went and; went around; went before; went below; went down; went first; went forward; went from; went home; went myself; went quickly; went right; went slowly; went then; went thither; went together; will defend