Example sentences of "be home the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kommandant made a number or telephone calls and then , to my complete surprise , said that my father would be home the following evening . |
| 2 | he might be home the weekend |
| 3 | This can be seen from the figures in Table 5 which also suggest that the longer the time they had lived in an old people 's home the less likely they were to go into hospital . |
| 4 | Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’ |
| 5 | When an old person becomes so demented that she or he can not be contained in an old people 's home the choice is between a private nursing home costing about £400 a week or a free bed in the NHS . |