Example sentences of "[vb past] to school " in BNC.

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1 A handiwork lesson where children were mechanically engaged in a task ( making brooms ) which all had already mastered before they ever came to school .
2 Some vandals came to school and they seemed pretty rough
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 John , a 14 year old , often came to school early .
6 ‘ And when she came to school for me … ’
7 ‘ I came to school for a book , but I found a musician ! ’
8 Last night I came to school to look for a book , and I found a musician ! … -But Tony learns very quickly .
9 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 .
10 You know when these people came to school and played instruments , how many of them were there ?
11 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 ’ .
12 The local police had told the sergeant that Marek cycled to school every morning to keep fit and to save money .
13 She seemed to be limping very slightly , something he had failed to notice when they walked to school together .
14 I picked up my lunch box and I walked to school .
15 I walked to school with my mum and it was very cold and windy day .
16 An eleven year old girl has been raped as she walked to school .
17 An eleven year old girl has been raped as she walked to school .
18 Thousands of children are being warned not to go out alone after an eleven year old girl was raped as she walked to school .
19 The 11 year old was grabbed from behind as she walked to school along this path in Milton Keynes .
20 He says a rape in daylight involving an 11 year old as she walked to school is particularly serious .
21 The girl was attacked as she walked to school along a footpath on the Two Mile Ash estate , last Thursday .
22 Tony Atkinson , 16 , was knocked unconscious yesterday as he walked to school in Norris Green , Liverpool .
23 and yet we walked to school and we did n't see one
24 Climbing became his passion when he returned to school .
25 Impressed by the Boy Scouts he had encountered , Mr. Shaw resolved to start a troop at his school , and when the pupils returned to school after the summer holidays in August 1910 , the Royal Cross School Troop was formed , followed shortly afterwards by the Royal Cross School Guides Troop .
26 I returned to school in mid-September firmly persuaded that farming was the essential life of the countryside .
27 Disappointment came with only one grade 1 pass — in PE — and he returned to school to take three GCE ‘ O ’ levels .
28 When Richard returned to school , Philip was thirty-eight , formidable and , locally , not a little feared .
29 Richard returned to school a month before his seventeenth birthday .
30 Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school .
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