Example sentences of "[pron] have been at school " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter .
2	I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school .
3	Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me .
4	You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ?
5	Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with .
6	According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home .
7	It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day .
8	Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period .
9	After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays .
10	But that still boils down to the fact that everybody thinks they know how schools work cos they 've been at school themselves .
11	They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds .
12	He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen .
13	He had been at school almost six months , the most miserable time of his entire life .
14	He admitted modestly that it was a long time since he had been at school , but one phrase he had understood was ‘ Vive la link box ! ’ .
15	He had been at School for over 21 years , teaching general subjects .

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