1.   It had been his only possession when he had fled his home as it burned.

2.   Residents stood shivering in the chilly night air as Red Cross officials scrambled to find them lodging after they fled their homes.

3.   The flooding forced hundreds of residents to flee their homes.

4.   President Bush declared a state of emergency as up to a million people fled their homes.

5.   Ancient methods such as burning villages and crops, salting fields and killing livestock are used by both insurgents and governments to persuade people to flee their homes.

6.   And in Bosnia the fighting continued, forcing more civilians to flee their homes in terror.

7.   Annan also urged greater urgency in preparations for an anticipated flood of Afghans fleeing their homes in fear of American retaliatory strikes.

8.   As the crisis has escalated, so has the flood of Colombians fleeing their homes.

9.   At the beginning at the war, her family fled their home, but they were eventually captured by the Nazis.

10.   Bolukbasi, whose wife is of Albanian extraction, fled his home at the end of March, not long after NATO began its bombing campaign.