Example sentences of "home [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it totally impossible for her to have slipped home during the critical time ? ’ |
| 2 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 3 | It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back . |
| 4 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
| 5 | You go to the most wonderful places , you STAND in Soweto outside Nelson Mandela 's little house and watch him come home for the first time in 25 years . |
| 6 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
| 7 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
| 8 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 12 | The need is primarily for affordable housing ( to buy or rent ) for young people wanting to set up home for the first time , or for the elderly wanting smaller , more manageable accommodation . |
| 13 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 16 | The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time . |
| 17 | I mean it 's crazy , why do n't they have the conference time at ten o'clock in the morning , and have the conference and everybody go home at a decent time , it 's silly . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope to get home at a reasonable time tonight , but it rather depends on what Kegan wants . |
| 19 | Do come home at the agreed time ; if you 're going to be unavoidably late , ring your babysitter and let her know . |
| 20 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 21 | He appealed to any member of the public who had been in the neighbourhood of the deceased 's home at the critical time to come forward . |
| 22 | It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington . |
| 23 | Laura , a far more quiet and serious character than her cousin , had left home at the same time for Cambridge University , to read economics . |
| 24 | Mr Garvey 's car , a Volvo estate , which also vanished from the family home at the same time as Mr Garvey , was found this afternoon at Great Yarmouth , parked in a side street . |
| 25 | A group of young teenage girls once admitted to me that although they frequently complained because their parents insisted that they should be home by a certain time , they recognized that the deadline gave them a useful excuse for not getting out of their depth . |