Example sentences of "left home at " in BNC.

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1 Willem Van Leer was born in Amsterdam on May 29 1913 and left home at 18 — ‘ a remittance man , ’ as he put it , ‘ without a remittance ’ .
2 Jean left home at 16 and went to live with a friend .
3 Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast .
4 He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time .
5 I left home at 15 to become a footballer , she was really proud of me ; she encouraged me to go but I know she wanted me at home .
6 ‘ It will be the first time we have seen her since it happened , ’ said Mr Young , a TV repair man , before they left home at Watton , Norfolk , for the visit to the mortuary .
7 Joanna , 25 , was last seen by her mother , Penny , as she left home at 6.50pm on Tuesday for the two-minute drive .
8 Many young people with the encouragement of their parents , left home at this time to avoid these responsibilities .
9 ‘ I left home at twenty-one .
10 When I first left home at 17 , I was a lot bigger because I used to eat loads of junk food .
11 ‘ Your mother told Sergeant Curtis that Riddle left home at half-past seven on Friday evening to go to the yard ; was that unusual ? ’
12 He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle .
13 He still left home at eight each morning , but he did n't head for the office , he wandered round town , visiting anywhere that was free such as the library , or even the museums ; the guides came to know him , one even greeted him when he entered .
14 I left home at half-past nine and I got back about half-past ten . ’
15 We left home at half past nine .
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