Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' home [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Murphy 's daughter had separated from John Neal and returned to her parents ' home but Mr Neal continued to call , often drunk and at odd hours . |
| 2 | Prior to World War I , a majority of spinsters faced an often lonely and marginal life in their parents ' home or in the households of a male relative . |
| 3 | The place was fairly close to his parents ' home and possibly had been chosen for that reason . |
| 4 | The desire to ensure that the adult child retains an appropriate degree of independence can be particularly tricky in these circumstances , especially if she or he returns to live in the parents ' home and is dependent upon them for accommodation , child care , emotional support and possibly for money as well . |
| 5 | It has also been spurred on by the growing tendency for young adults to seek accommodation away from their parents ' home and , particularly in the 1980s , by the increase in the numbers of young adults resulting from the baby boom . |
| 6 | At the weekend she had visited her parents ' home and spent some time with her sister , Jennifer , but she had found that she had been unable to tell them about David Markham . |
| 7 | Students , who tend to the left , can choose whether to register in their parents ' homes or where they live in term time . |
| 8 | What is more , current social work and health policy seeks to move away from institutionalized forms of care provided by elderly persons ' homes and hospitals , concentrating instead on maintaining ageing people within their own homes . |
| 9 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 10 | Step inside the Pages ' home and you soon understand why judges have been impressed . |
| 11 | To save fuel hot water was only supplied to hospitals , childrens ' homes and similar institutions . |
| 12 | The anecdotes and examples chosen to add colour to strictly academic material revealed highly sexist ideas about history , the pupils ' homes or their own knowledge or interests . |
| 13 | The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place . |
| 14 | This was being built under the main road that divided the three nurses ' homes and the medical-school library from the hospital . |
| 15 | It invades privacy , with investigators spying on claimants ' homes and questioning their children ( Lister , 1973 ) . |
| 16 | There was no Christian architecture before A.D. 200 ; believers gathered together to meet in each others ' homes and used the courtyard fountain for baptism . |
| 17 | Some elderly subjects were recruited from senior citizens ' homes or choirs . |
| 18 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 19 | The Merchant Seamen 's Fund provided an illustration and stimulus for the development of a large number of private philanthropic societies to provide relief for sick and shipwrecked mariners , Sailors ' homes and schooling for seamen 's children which endeavoured to do something to ease their lot . |