Example sentences of "[adv] from home [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh has it ever occurred to you to take a bottle of milk in from home save going out to buy it ? |
| 2 | Manucci was the son of a Venetian trader who , aged fourteen , had run away from home as a stowaway on a merchant ship . |
| 3 | The Times for the morning of Wednesday , 29 May 1839 , announced that the Orynthia was cleared outward with cargo for Demerara and Honduras ; the woman 's bust figurehead was leading her brave boys away from home on the long voyage south-west . |
| 4 | Different centres of excellence will usually offer courses in their own specialism ; you may find you have to work away from home on secondment if your first choice is limited to only a few specialist centres . |
| 5 | I was not prepared to travel 140 miles to and from work each day , nor to live away from home on a long term basis , so I inquired about part time training . |
| 6 | Indeed , the east part of Thurso has a tradition of ‘ travelling workers ’ — men regularly working away from home on construction . |
| 7 | She could not settle at school , ran away from home on several occasions and spent most of her time alone . |
| 8 | I had three-quarters of an Assistant Registrar and spent sixty-five nights away from home on Council visits . |
| 9 | ‘ Your parents , they do n't mind you being away from home on your own ? ’ he questioned . |
| 10 | Jonathan Jobson , 16 , from Peterborough , Cambridgeshire , said his condition had improved when he was away from home on work experience and when the nurse , Beverley Allitt , had left . |
| 11 | ‘ I have a brother , but he 's away from home at present , ’ wrote Joanna tactfully to a Greek pen-friend . |
| 12 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 13 | And I th , I think about a great deal because it 's a very strange , it 's a very strange thing to talk about but when I came to Suffolk , I might have told you this before er , I had hardly been away from home at all , I was only seventeen when I first met him |
| 14 | I think that 's the only word for it , and we have seen United away from home at Bristol City and West Bromwich Albion , play so badly . |
| 15 | They were away from home for six weeks and in that time covered thousands of miles , made over forty flights , attended a multitude of receptions , galas and banquets and shook more hands in walkabouts than could ever be counted . |
| 16 | ‘ It would not be applied to someone who uses the house as their family home but works away from home for most of the week , ’ said Mr Soley . |
| 17 | Sometimes he was away from home for months at a time . |
| 18 | She has not been held away from home for long . ’ |
| 19 | I tried to recall friends ' telephone numbers as an exercise , but astonishingly , though I had only been away from home for fifteen days , could only manage my own , my sister 's and my mother-in-law 's . |
| 20 | When you 're away from home for business or pleasure , it 's important that you choose the accommodation that suits your needs and the kind of break that you 're looking forward to . |
| 21 | Young people away from home for the first time also have to find the resources within themselves to create a pattern of living . |
| 22 | The club is having to play all its fixtures away from home for the second successive season because a new roof is being built at a cost of £1.3million . |
| 23 | If I get a movie script which means that I 've got to be away from home for a long period then I turn it down . ’ |
| 24 | Caine turns down scripts if it means being away from home for too long |
| 25 | The tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan had no family responsibilities and so could live away from home for two or three years and could return home every eight weeks or more often if he chose to pay his own fare . |
| 26 | Shetland , for example , is 338 kilometres ( 210 miles ) north of Aberdeen and attendance at a mid-week meeting on the mainland could involve five days away from home for a councillor from the northern isles ( Wheatley 1969:292 ) . |
| 27 | If you 're away from home for the first time , you may well feel lonely and unhappy — a major contributory factor in student depression and withdrawal from college . |
| 28 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 29 | In 1937 , 15 million people ( one-third of the population ) were holidaying away from home for a week or more . |
| 30 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |