Example sentences of "going [prep] school " in BNC.

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1 None of them are , be going during school hours so I 'll get them out half an hour or three quarters of an hour early or so .
2 and Wednesday on the open day , you 're going after school
3 By Ann Todd A GROUP of Liverpool youngsters are happy as mudlarks about going into school .
4 Considerable concern was expressed , for example by R. H. Tawney , about the numbers of boys going from school into unskilled jobs with little prospect of advancement , from which they might be dismissed when they became old enough to qualify for higher adult earnings .
5 The National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers advises members against going on school trips , while recognising many continue to choose to do so .
6 The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that …
7 When I see other children going to school I feel so depressed and disturbed , my girl is indoors all day .
8 There are swarms of Gumpets going to school , to the office , to the bank , waiting outside the grocers ' for cut-price Cadbury 's Fruit & Nut .
9 And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch .
10 We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love .
11 It was a bittersweet time but he still held my hand going to school .
12 ‘ Endill 's going to school soon , ’ said his mother .
13 For the first time Endill felt his stomach turn at the idea of going to school .
14 He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up .
15 As children grow older , and start going to school , it is very important that they feel as ‘ normal ’ as possible .
16 When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go .
17 I finally stopped going to school when Charlie did , and Eva arranged for me to go to a college where I could finish my A levels .
18 I was just a little kid , living at home and going to school — fifteen , but boy it was real exciting .
19 I know of one child who had it and who had to plug the offending ear before going to school , otherwise it gave out an audible whistle which disturbed other children although the child was not aware of it himself .
20 The Panel Chairman told the parents that their children were well , settling down in their foster homes , and that some were going to school .
21 Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality .
22 Tim going to school with his arms round a nice Indian boy 's neck .
23 ‘ Are you going to school ? ’ she asked .
24 It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school .
25 They can carry on a normal life like going to school or work and having fun with their family and friends , but they will be infectious to other people for the rest of their lives .
26 Er one of my worst experiences actually was going to school and found that when we walk when I went into the classroom there was only me and two other children .
27 Even when I was going to school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I was doing gigs , and when I finished with school I realised that I was able to get by with just the gigs .
28 It was quite different from going to school in London .
29 That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones .
30 Going to school and back was a hazardous operation for Preston .
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