Example sentences of "home [prep] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In early July the waiting was broken by the excitement of Maggie coming home for the first time since she had left for London . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | When I took Jack [ Rosenthal ] home for the first time it was my parents ' silver wedding anniversary . |
4 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
5 | I was calling the L-shaped room home for the first time , and thinking of it as such . |
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 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It is unlikely that he would have gone to a children 's home in the first place and stayed for as long as he did before fostering was tried . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Her parents travelled home in the first week of October leaving her with fields enriched by the presence of a few dozen sheep and enough advice to see her through the cow 's first calving and the sow 's first litter . |
15 | Instead , she let him know that she never took guys home on a first date . |
16 | Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 . |
17 | ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here . |