Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the other day I just could n't face yet another day of taunts , kicks and bag-snatching so I skived off school . |
| 2 | " I applied for school uniform grants for the kids , " said an unemployed woman in Barnsley with three children . |
| 3 | ‘ The incident occurred after school hours , but we are helping police with their investigations , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Richard excelled in school . |
| 5 | The language of instruction in adult education may be different from that used in school . |
| 6 | In the 5–9 year age group , 15% of injuries happened in school and 24% out of doors ( compared with 23% at home ) ; and for 10–15 year-olds , 29% occurred in school and 26% out of doors ( compared with 11% at home ) . |
| 7 | The council will provide emergency shelter for anyone evacuated at schools , village halls or community centres , and will help co-ordinate relief and clear-up operations . |
| 8 | It is also relevant to note that 55% of injuries which occurred at school happened in the playground . |
| 9 | Both Armstrong and Harrison played through school together , with the former a doughty scrum-half , and the latter an intelligent out-half with a hefty boot . |
| 10 | Children of pre-school age came into school with their mothers and fathers . |
| 11 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 12 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 13 | Well it was well Dawn 's mum came into school she said we were |
| 14 | A handiwork lesson where children were mechanically engaged in a task ( making brooms ) which all had already mastered before they ever came to school . |
| 15 | Some vandals came to school and they seemed pretty rough |
| 16 | A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates . |
| 17 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 18 | John , a 14 year old , often came to school early . |
| 19 | ‘ And when she came to school for me … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I came to school for a book , but I found a musician ! ’ |
| 21 | Last night I came to school to look for a book , and I found a musician ! … -But Tony learns very quickly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You know when these people came to school and played instruments , how many of them were there ? |
| 24 | I cycled to school one morning through streets littered with glass , and past a little Nonconformist chapel , in which everything had been destroyed except the far wall with its multi-coloured and scrolled message ‘ God is Love ’ . |
| 25 | The local police had told the sergeant that Marek cycled to school every morning to keep fit and to save money . |
| 26 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 27 | One of the sex manuals we swapped at school |
| 28 | Think of all those dreadful jokes you suffered at school . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Like when the time came at school to plan his future after he left . |