Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rode to school on one of the high ‘ sit up and beg ’ bikes with a saddle on the crossbar , which enabled him to take his daughter from his home at Harnham to school at The Godolphin . |
| 2 | He gossips about the weather and American football , recalls that he played at school and in the Army , and was a big follower of the game . |
| 3 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 4 | Bill had heard the news that morning when he arrived at school . |
| 5 | Tony Atkinson , 16 , was knocked unconscious yesterday as he walked to school in Norris Green , Liverpool . |
| 6 | Climbing became his passion when he returned to school . |
| 7 | Disappointment came with only one grade 1 pass — in PE — and he returned to school to take three GCE ‘ O ’ levels . |
| 8 | Mrs Elsie Morgan had travelled on the train on her honeymoon in 1920 ; Lady More recalled some of Sir Jasper 's memories ; Colonel Sykes remembered that , as a boy , the engine driver used to allow him to drive the train when he returned to school at the beginning of term ; and Mrs Lucy Hemmings had regularly tested the milk carried by the train for the Creamery . |
| 9 | One of the reasons they all became friends was that Wally 's mum and dad did n't mind that he bunked off school all the time . |
| 10 | In addition , he worked in school medical and infant welfare clinics and as consultant for newborn babies to the Infectious Diseases Hospital , Willesden . |
| 11 | David Greenland , of North Terrace , Gainford , said Sturdy , whom he knew from school , offered him a deal which he thought would boost trade and which he could terminate if he wanted to . |
| 12 | ‘ He could read and write before he went to school . |
| 13 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 14 | Edmund McCarten was born in Millom on 30th March , 1912 and he went to school in Millom until the age of 14 when he transferred to the seminary at Ushaw and there studied for the priesthood . |
| 15 | Before he went to school , he was opening doors for ladies and addressing all the adult men around him — from the footman to Prince Philip — as ‘ sir ’ . |
| 16 | Did he mention where he went to school ? ’ |
| 17 | He went to school in Attleborough and it was here he developed what he considered a ‘ natural advantage ’ in sport . |
| 18 | David Whitaker was born in Knebworth , Hertfordshire in 1928 , although fairly soon afterwards his family moved to Barnes in South-West London where he went to school and spent much of his adolescent life . |
| 19 | His second , literary name assumed when he went to school was Nguyen Tat Thanh ( Uguyen destined for success ' ) . |
| 20 | Now five years old , he went to school in Warminster and was trying hard to adopt a Dorset accent , having been teased about the snob way he talked . |
| 21 | Daddy must have been quite young when he left , because he went to school at North Stainmore . |
| 22 | After a year at Royston College , Sydney , he went to school at Brighton College in England . |
| 23 | They would say , oh yes , he went to school , she picked a cat . |
| 24 | ‘ He went to school . |
| 25 | So he went to school . ’ |
| 26 | We should get Grant 's all ready because mummy forgot to give him one before he went to school . |
| 27 | I know , he went to school to do |
| 28 | Oh the second day he went to school he did |
| 29 | I mean he went to school , he went to oh school , but he lived at Enfield and erm , you 'd have never thought then that he had got it in him and , so dry I said to dad I said he never ought to be a bus driver , cos the things he comes out with , he 'd have to be a comedian , I mean he 's , I mean as er , what , they used to call the comedians did n't they , three or four of them on the telly , and I mean |
| 30 | And erm , he went to school there , and erm , all the girls had these incredibly hairy legs . |