Example sentences of "leave home [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Because it is hard to expel asylum-seekers once they have arrived , potential host countries make it difficult for refugees to leave home in the first place .
2 ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’
3 God needs his nourishment , his daily fix of souls as by the million every day we drop off the perch , and so Bernard and Apricot — renamed Ellen as a condition of marriage — if they 're to do God 's will , must reproduce till the cows come home , though nowadays of course the cows never leave home in the first place , they 're linked up permanently to milking machines .
4 Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location .
5 And so it was that on a beautiful morning in May , two to three years after her return from Trantridge , Tess Durbeyfield left home for the second time .
6 For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time .
7 And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it .
8 The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time .
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