Example sentences of "he left home [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 2 | He described how it felt to discover he was an illegitimate child , when his mother called him a bastard ; how he left home at 14 to find work in the Durham coalfields — hating his parents , hating the world , ripe for enlistment in the class struggle . |
| 3 | He left home for London in 1597 , and was a student at an inn of Chancery , New Inn , for four years from 1599 . |
| 4 | After leaving school he left home for Toronto and then on to New York , where he attended theatre school . |
| 5 | He left home with his two brothers in 1939 to fight the Germans , becoming a sergeant-major in the Czechoslovak Free Army and serving alongside British forces in North Africa and Europe . |
| 6 | He left home on the word of promise ; he was prepared to sacrifice his son because God said so ; and his trust in God was estimated in terms of relationship to God . |
| 7 | He left home in 1871 to work in Birmingham , was converted during a Moody-Sankey campaign , and in 1879 entered Bristol Baptist College . |
| 8 | He left home in 1873 and spent fourteen years as a cowboy and trail rider , with a spell of gold-mining in the Yukon in 1883–4 . |