Example sentences of "their home " in BNC.
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| 1 | With hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their homes by the conflict , the economy of these areas has been devastated and government forces are laying siege to many parts of the north , often involving inaccurate and indiscriminate bombardments of civilian population centres . |
| 2 | The general data presented by Cox are undeniable , but interpretation of the data rests on certain assumptions , principally that people act on an individualistic basis rather than as groups , and according to attitudes expressed in the quiet of their homes rather than in response to major events . |
| 3 | Smoke alarms are small plastic devices which can be fitted by most people in their homes . |
| 4 | He had a vision of the people of the country , walking and walking in endless droves , like pilgrims , across a battlefield shaken by the explosions of guns ; and as the smoke blew into their eyes , the people turned , desperate to see their homes again , but behind them a great dark channel had opened , with torn precipitous sides , and there was no way back … |
| 5 | Tramens lay in the streets , in offices , in their homes , gasping , choking , clutching their throats , fighting for air . |
| 6 | Tenants need help decorating their homes when they can no longer do it themselves , and owner occupiers on low incomes need both financial and practical help to adapt , repair and improve their homes to suit their needs , or just to make them habitable . |
| 7 | Tenants need help decorating their homes when they can no longer do it themselves , and owner occupiers on low incomes need both financial and practical help to adapt , repair and improve their homes to suit their needs , or just to make them habitable . |
| 8 | In the past few weeks , some 30,000 East Germans have expressed their lack of faith in the GDR 's future by abandoning their homes and , often , their relatives for the freedom of the West . |
| 9 | Some urban gardeners , as short of space inside as they are out , want their gardens to be extensions of their homes , with a great deal of hard paving , good furniture and lighting . |
| 10 | Richard Rampton QC , for Count Tolstoy , cross-examining Lord Aldington , said : ‘ These people were in mortal fear of being returned to their homes . ’ |
| 11 | SHELTER has called for urgent legislation to protect people buying their homes on ‘ rental purchase ’ — a form of credit . |
| 12 | Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have fled from their homes , some to refugee camps in Ethiopia , others to revert to their ancestral nomadic existence in Somalia 's empty semi-deserts . |
| 13 | Instead of thousands of offenders , inhumanely contained in Victorian slums , we would have thousands of offenders being punished in the community and confined to their homes . |
| 14 | Therefore , they try to conceal the fact that they are talking to people , sometimes by giving the impression through non-verbal behaviour that they are issuing directions , or by calling at their homes . |
| 15 | Swiss housewives rejected this appeal , apparently put off by the idea of being replaced in their homes by machines . |
| 16 | Now that Caen had fallen , some of the villagers , were beginning to drift back to their homes . |
| 17 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 18 | This is a fantastic place for birdwatchers — puffin , falcon , raven , gannet , guillemot and cormorants , to name but a few , make their homes along the coastline and on its islands for part of the year . |
| 19 | Thus we commend the Bible to be read by the Churches and by Christian families in their homes , as nourishment for their souls , and not to be separated from the sacrament in the liturgy ; we commend modern translations , into the various languages , as a help to understanding ; we commend the people who have the duty of seeking to interpret the Bible in terms of the modern scientific view of the world ; and remind the Churches that all knowledge is of God and therefore that scientific discovery is also part of His work ; and so the world will be brought to know God as its Maker , and the Cross as timeless . |
| 20 | For example when , as a journalist , I visited couples in their homes to ask about local events , my conversations with women would often be interrupted by their husbands holding up their hands in the direction of their wives and saying in the most matter of fact way ‘ Be quiet , ’ and then turning to me and saying ‘ There is no point in asking my wife . |
| 21 | They are literally outsiders in the schools they attend , miles away from their homes . |
| 22 | If they talk about their homes , their homes are completely different from ours . |
| 23 | If they talk about their homes , their homes are completely different from ours . |
| 24 | Let those spend fortunes on their homes who can afford it : the same look can often be achieved more economically . |
| 25 | Their homes , both in London and in the country , epitomize their attitude . |
| 26 | Allowing the public into their homes for a peep at family life , which left us feeling they were not particularly special , was a dangerous gamble that backfired . |
| 27 | It would be wonderful if after the service people would be willing to invite 2 or 3 Soviets into their homes for lunch . |
| 28 | His two children , aged 18 months and seven months , were sleeping eight feet from the explosion , but were saved from injury by the bomb-proofing and reinforced glass that all VIPs in the province get in their homes . |
| 29 | It must be horrible for them when cars crash outside their homes . |
| 30 | Police said the dead included four children less than eight years old shot by snipers in their homes overnight . |