Example sentences of "[verb] home [prep] the [num ord] time " 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 | His father had been ‘ under the weather , since July , and Lewis was half-aware that he might be coming home for the last time . |
| 3 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ Sadly , it seems that some young people find it difficult to adjust when they leave home for the first time . ’ |
| 5 | Many entrants to nursing will be leaving home for the first time or changing their location . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The last date was significant ; it was the Monday following the Sunday on which Inez left home for the last time . |
| 10 | 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 . |