Example sentences of "home [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " 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 With the wind at their backs in the second half , Aldershot penned the Oxford lads in their own half and Simon Nice , in his best form , drove the ball firmly home for the second goal .
12 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 .
13 Kevan Smith completely missed a right wing corner from Phil Jones at the near post , allowing Worthington to bundle the ball home for the 87th League goal against Quakers this season .
14 We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered .
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 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 But in a frantic third period , Kevin Conway fired home in the third minute to equalise Wojciech Tkacz 's first period opener .
22 ‘ That was the matron of an old ladies ’ home in the next village .
23 ‘ Sarah Perkins took her sister home in the last stages of consumption ; how I sympathized with her distress !
24 Instead , she let him know that she never took guys home on a first date .
25 Price powered home on the first count with 465 first preference votes , but Beth mustered only 11 .
26 ‘ Go home on the first flight out of here .
27 Having to get up very early in the mornings he tended to be in bed by the time she arrived home on the last bus from Bath .
28 On may 3 it had caused sufficient problems to be pushed home on the last train of the day from Wroxham .
29 POLEBROOK AIRFIELD , home to the 351st Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) of the USAAF 8th Air Force — including one of its captains , Clark Gable , who flew several missions from here as a gunnery officer in 1943 — is commemorated by a memorial , dedicated in September of 1980 , which is located on the old runway off the Hemington road .
30 Then Yorkshire mounted a 49th-minute attack and , aided by a deflection , Robert Ward got his shot home at the second attempt .
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