Example sentences of "of their [adj] home " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josie and Margaret Clarke were found butchered in the bedroom of their new home , next door to the bar they ran in St Mary . |
| 2 | Nearly three-quarters of the boys who were apprenticed to cutlers in and around Sheffield between 1650 and 1724 came from within a 15-mile radius of their new homes and only 4 per cent migrated more than 40 miles . |
| 3 | He dreamed of a society where there would be no capitalist bosses ; no unemployment ; with food ; housing and medical services for all ; where old women would not be thrown out of their lifelong homes to make way for richer tenants and children would never go hungry . |
| 4 | The gigantic Singer 's Wood Yard , site of the largest clock in Europe , blazed like a beacon , a tram full of people was hit , and as 55,000 struggled to escape , Scotland 's first refugees trudged outward from the wreck of their blazing homes . |
| 5 | The first and second defendants , husband and wife , agreed to execute a second mortgage of their matrimonial home as security for overdraft facilities extended by the plaintiff bank to a company in which the husband , but not the wife , had an interest . |
| 6 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 7 | Now , as she romps in the garden of their Georgian home in Grayswood , Surrey , this energetic nine-year-old is just as much a part of the Nicholson family as Mike 's wife Diana , 50 , and his two grown sons Tom , 20 and William , 19 . |
| 8 | Islington JS followed in the footsteps of their all-conquering home team , FA Cup winners Arsenal , when they raised the winner 's trophy at the first Central and Western area five-a-side tournament on May 23 . |
| 9 | Several of their stately homes remain , such as Thoresby Hall , the home of Earl Manvers , and Welbeck Abbey , which was the Duke of Portland 's seat . |
| 10 | And they look down their noses at schemes devised by builders which may offer £100 a month to encourage a potential purchaser of their existing home . |
| 11 | The acquisition of Hillmarden House and Alex 's flat , plus the sale of their existing home , made her decide to give up work in June , rather than September . |
| 12 | 15.16–72 ) : " The settlers from Phocaea , though surrounded by arrogant tribes and kept in awe by the savage rites of their barbarous neighbours , still retain the manners and dress of their ancient home among warlike populations . " |
| 13 | With it he brought good news to first-time buyers , who could save up to £600 on the purchase of their first home . |
| 14 | The next step was to explain the programme to health visitors , giving them the material Better Shoe public relations team wished them to place with the new mother at the time of their first home visit . |
| 15 | The home side 's PGL senior inter-association skip Seamus Elliman was beaten 31–12 by Mansell Montgomery which dashed Falls ' hopes of their first home win since the opening game of the league . |
| 16 | Northern Rock Housing Trust managing director , Colin Blakey , said : ‘ The low-cost housing we are providing is enabling many people to be the proud owners of their first home . ’ |
| 17 | New Zealand were within 33 runs of their first home Test victory in three years at close of play on the fourth day against Australia in Auckland . |
| 18 | They needed to repair the crumbling walls of their draughty homes , too . |
| 19 | Frankie often joined his classmates in taunting them because of their poor homes or absent fathers , yet in his heart of hearts he envied them all . |
| 20 | ‘ Middlesbrough will think they have won the tie because of their unbeaten home record and our poor away form . |
| 21 | The number of fry removed determines the size of their next home ; small numbers can be held in butter or ice cream tubs but larger broods will need to go into small fish tanks . |
| 22 | When his bones were brought out of their air-conditioned home for me to glimpse , I was astonished at their lightness and frailty . |
| 23 | AS THE only course which stages a major championship every year , Augusta National has become as familiar to golfers as the lay-out of their own home . |
| 24 | Elderly people should never be persuaded against their will to move out of their own home , unless their mental or physical health or living conditions are so deplorable that they are a danger to their own or other people 's safety . |
| 25 | ‘ There are n't many men who would attack a woman on the street but there are plenty who would attack their wife or partner in the privacy of their own home , ’ says Shirley Tulloch of the Community Affairs Branch of the Metropolitan Police . |
| 26 | It was a horrendous , rapacious strategy that they had used to gain control of their own home system . |
| 27 | But poverty arising from lack of training , employment , and benefits prevents acquisition of their own home . |
| 28 | Practically all of this latter group are the owners of their own home . |
| 29 | It is said that Farafrans know the night sky better than most people know the rooms of their own home . |
| 30 | Not to see if they were smoking at work but even in the privacy of their own home would we like that ? |