| 单词 | Home Counties |
| 例句 | The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But in the twenties and the early thirties, it exerted a considerable influence over much of London and the Home Counties. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Squirming, deadpanning in his distinctive Home Counties caw, Bird is very funny throughout. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z Which is what Home Counties hipsters call fruit and herb infusions, apparently. The Hive by Gill Hornby – review 2013-05-22T13:01:01Z Despite losing, Rovers were the first club from outside the Home Counties to reach the cup final. Oldest-known FA Cup final programme expected to fetch £25,000 at auction 2013-05-05T14:41:20Z Were it not for the lack of Home Counties vowels, you could almost imagine him among the cast of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. If you enjoyed those Peter Kay one-liners, they were probably written by Emo Philips 2010-07-09T23:14:00Z Again, Jones is the centre of Breathe In: a Home Counties cuckoo in Pearce's fragile family nest. Drake Doremus on Breathe In: 'I feel a mid-life crisis coming' 2013-07-18T14:20:20Z Or a pleasant day's cycling if the Home Counties hadn't just been ravaged by tripod fighting machines and poison gas. Summer voyages: The War of the Worlds by HG Wells 2013-07-26T10:50:02Z It often involved helping organise security for a desperately important secret conference being held at a Home Counties stately hall. The Professionals race back to the big screen 2011-03-28T19:33:29Z They are now focusing their efforts on positioning themselves as the main challenger in Tory-held areas mostly, but not entirely, in the Home Counties and southern England. Local elections 2023: Lib Dems spy winning post in Blue Wall council race 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z And it is the battles being played out on such land across the Home Counties that will have a direct impact on the home-buying dreams of Danielle and other young people in London. In need of modernisation? The UK’s housing crisis close up 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z In some respects the rebellion of England’s so-called Home Counties — the wealthy region surrounding London — is no surprise. A Rebellion Is Stirring in Boris Johnson’s Backyard 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Amazon Fresh offers same or next-day grocery deliveries for customers in London and the Home Counties. Amazon takes on supermarkets with free food delivery 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z People across parts of the capital and the northern Home Counties said the sonic boom woke them at about 04:20 GMT. Claims sonic boom 'cracked' windows and ceiling 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Storms in northern France are expected to move across the Channel to strike London and the Home Counties. Flash flooding warning as 40mm of rain forecast 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z But I also heard Italian voices, and the genteel tones of Home Counties English. Chasing the Aurora Borealis 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z He served with 92 Squadron and his first missions included the "dogfights" above London and the Home Counties for which the battle became known. Youngest Battle of Britain RAF pilot dies 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z “He sounded like somebody from London or the Home Counties trying to sound posher than he is,” said Jason Nisse, a British public-relations executive who set up the event. British Expert on the Royal Family Is Actually Tommy From Upstate New York 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z He counts himself as among the best, partly because – having been at a private school and university - he could do Home Counties as well as working-class. 'I was nothing more than a common thief': master of Fleet Street's dark arts reveals trade secrets 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The data, obtained by David Lammy MP, also shows a "shocking" regional bias, with more offers made to Home Counties pupils than the whole of northern England. Oxbridge 'even posher than we thought' 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Called Home Counties, it reflects the band's experiences of growing up in Surrey and Berkshire. Bob Stanley on tracing the history of pre-pop - BBC News 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Sudesh Rani was shopping in the Home Counties two years ago when she experienced such discrimination first hand. The UK Hindus divided over caste - BBC News 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z As the Home Counties magazine put it: “The whole was such an execrable performance that ridicule killed it”. Into Orbit: my dizzying drop down the world's biggest slide 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Those girls born into privileged Home Counties' families were no better than her. #towerlives: Betty Campbell's fight for childhood dream - BBC News 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z HOW they cheered, the Home Counties arts students and sociology lecturers, as Jeremy Corbyn rattled through the old left’s greatest hits. Hi-de-Hi with Jeremy Corbyn 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z In a leafy cul-de-sac in the Home Counties sits an ordinary semi with some extraordinary inhabitants. Step inside the secret robot house - BBC News 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Inheritance is a complex matter in Great Britain, and death duties on the Surrey estate—some 400 acres of prime Home Counties territory—were immense. The Duchess of Roxburghe's Fishing Rods, and Her 300K Diamond Tiara, On the Sotheby's Block 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z With prices in the city surging over the last several years, a ripple effect has spread out to the so-called Home Counties, including Hertfordshire, on the city’s northern border. House Hunting in ... England 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z The report also suggests that areas such as the West Midlands, East Anglia and the Home Counties are among the worst for working parents. Many areas 'lack out-of-school care' 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z On the plus side, the inmates created the sporting and recreational associations you might find in any respectable Home Counties town. The prisoners who grew 33,000 lettuces 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z But I soon realised that I was simultaneously using up a finite resource and randomly annoying articulate interest groups more effectively than a Home Counties fracker. Want to tell the world what you really think? Say it with a stamp 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z The experience of being rocked to sleep as the train speeds through the Home Counties to wake up to the vast wilderness of Rannoch moor is pleasantly disorientating. Sleeper romance 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z "We've seen that foisting fracking on communities - south or north - doesn't work, and his comments are likely to further stir rebellion in the Home Counties, not quell it." PM urges UK to 'get behind fracking' 2013-08-12T09:12:37Z "He is not an artist who fits into the Home Counties, Eton and Oxbridge view of England and Englishness," said Professor Clark, speaking at a preview of the Tate show on Monday. Lowry 'will always split art world' 2013-06-24T15:07:07Z We're in the Home Counties and in affluent Essex and yet this is the most deprived place in England.” Town's 'missed torch opportunity' 2012-07-06T03:20:35Z Or he might just pour himself a cup of tea and offer a few quiet Home Counties words of encouragement. Murray standing on the verge of Wimbledon history 2012-07-05T22:00:01Z Local councils estimate there are 10,000 sheds concealed from view across London and the Home Counties, lining networks of alleyways. The illegal immigrants desperate to escape squalor of Britain 2012-02-28T12:00:28Z Both claimed she was more concerned with the effects of the proposed high speed rail link on her Home Counties constituency rather than the problems facing Wales. Hain warning of 'closet Tories' 2012-02-19T08:18:46Z He declines to say whether he still owns a house in the Home Counties, a Challenger private jet, or a 42-metre yacht called Element. Icelandic tycoon still living the high life in London after the collapse of Icesave 2011-08-27T10:02:05Z I am arranging a series of meetings in the Midlands and Home Counties as soon as the House rises. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z “The transition of Miss Middleton from a young woman from the Home Counties to being our future queen is the stuff of fairy tales,” said the conservative Daily Telegraph. The Lede: Live Updates: The Royal Wedding 2011-04-30T00:00:54Z The reports that pro-AV voting system campaign leaflets in London used a picture of black poet Benjamin Zephaniah - but he was removed from those in the Home Counties. Newspaper review 2011-04-03T04:54:56Z The ranks of his thegnhood and house-carles had been thinned by the slaughter of Stamford Bridge, and their place was but indifferently supplied by the hasty levies of London, Wessex and the Home Counties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The majority come from the Home Counties - southern England's skies carry the sulphuric stain of light pollution. Stargazing and dark sky tourism 2011-01-03T08:55:15Z The average selling price of a freehold free house – a profitable and functioning pub often privately owned – in London and the Home Counties this year is now about £513,000. Price of pubs nearly halves in three years as boozers call time 2010-12-07T20:44:00Z "I'm not stonewalling," replied the BP man in his flat Home Counties drawl. Tony Hayward: Like a nervous statue under a whole flock of pigeons 2010-06-17T21:08:00Z Shenanigans aside, the substance of Robson's observation revealed more about her own upright views and Home Counties upbringing than it did about her intended targets. Laura Robson has attitude to excel at Wimbledon says Lindsay Davenport 2010-06-17T15:15:00Z Welsh and Home Counties troops also took part in beating off the attack on Jerusalem. The Story of the Great War, Volume VII (of VIII) American Food and Ships; Palestine; Italy invaded; Great German Offensive; Americans in Picardy; Americans on the Marne; Foch's Counteroffensive. Its towns have British names, and the streets of the towns have British names, while their atmosphere and design are almost of the Home Counties. Westward with the Prince of Wales District enjoys best water supply and most lenient Exemption Tribunal in the Home Counties. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, April 12, 1916 As it chanced, a battalion of men from the Home Counties was in possession of the trenches, and the messenger returned with information to that effect. With Our Army in Palestine The broad Yorkshire and Cumbrian speech, Scotch, the cockney of the Home Counties, the Northumberland burr, the tongues of Devon and Somerset—one seemed to hear them all in turn. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend To a great extent these defects characterise the Home Counties, and one might try to excuse them in various ways. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Moreover the Society was conducting a series of "Suburban Lectures" by paid lecturers, in more or less middle-class residential areas of the Home Counties. The History of the Fabian Society But in London, and especially in the Home Counties, there was no such reign of liberty. The Pleasures of Ignorance I paid little attention to it till I heard the roar of a horn that has no duplicate in all the Home Counties. Traffics and Discoveries I live in one of the Home Counties, within five miles of one of the military camps. The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend Extensive floods are reported in the Home Counties. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 15, 1919 In a subsequent issue of the local weekly we found the following:— To the Editor of "The Inshot Times, Great and Little Budford Chronicle and Home Counties Advertiser." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 In her spiritual make-up there is none of that subtle gosh-awfulness which renders such an exhibit as, say, my Aunt Agatha the curse of the Home Counties and a menace to one and all. Right Ho, Jeeves The vagabond merchant had the slight drawling inflection of the Home Counties, which gave a soothing effect to a naturally soft voice. The Fortunate Youth |
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