Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 32 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 33 | He had come from Bangladesh about three months previously and had been in school about two months . |
| 34 | A YOUNG policeman helped to crack a lorry hijacking , the Crown claimed yesterday , because he had been in school with the man accused of abducting the driver and stealing spirits , food and tobacco . |