Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] ' home " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an old folks ' home . |
| 2 | After making her name as a prisoner of war in Tenko ( in which she appeared with Renee Asherson ) , Stephanie has been busy with a second series of the TV comedy Waiting for God about a group of crumblies living in an old folks ' home . |
| 3 | Leaving the harbour high on the Pultney side of the river I passed an old folks ' home looking out over that cold North Sea ; only the dawn in winter can show any warmth . |
| 4 | And er it was er we had to develop it from a poorhouse into an old folks ' home . |
| 5 | Er I think she does a bit of part time I 'm not really sure what she does she comes and goes , she probably works in an old folks ' home or something , she has a uniform . |
| 6 | Thieves made off with £50 in cash from an old folks ' home in Windsor Court , off Newton Lane , Darlington . |
| 7 | After consultation with the ward staff of the hospital where he was , and with the speech therapist , I drew a small house , his , and a large building , an old peoples ' home , and asked him to point to where he wanted to go . |
| 8 | A group of residents in an old peoples ' home may between them be confronting many occasions of loss and death ; the handling of these matters requires sensitivity too . |
| 9 | Way back in December , when we were first rehearsing erm the problems erm we were facing a hundred and seventy compulsory redundancies , the closure of an adult training centre , the closure of an elderly persons ' home , erm the closure of a hostel and a whole range of other quite draconian measures . |