Example sentences of "[been] [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 3 | Do you know you 've been off school from what ? |
| 4 | It ca n't have been about school . |
| 5 | And we have been involved , I have certainly been into schools a fair bit but but they 're erm they are a bit reticent they 're certainly slow to come forward to ask for your for you help and and |
| 6 | One new development in our educational work has been with schools and community organisations . |
| 7 | He was n't sure which of them was meant to have been in school uniform . |
| 8 | A child will not have been in school many days before he is made aware of individual differences among his classmates . |
| 9 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 10 | I often saw him wandering about in the fields and lanes or fishing in quiet reaches of the river when he should have been in school . |
| 11 | He had come from Bangladesh about three months previously and had been in school about two months . |
| 12 | Describing the plight of Somali children , it explains : ’ Many of them have not been in school for several years when they arrive in this country ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Not after you have n't been in school all week . |
| 15 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 16 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |
| 17 | My top-floor neighbours were a couple called Christina and Barry Jackson , and Barry had been to school with David and George Underwood in Bromley , and being a neighbour , I was quite friendly with these two . |
| 18 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 19 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 20 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 21 | It must introduce new concepts , whether in mathematics , geography , physics or literature , concepts that are unfamiliar , and would have remained unknown to a child who had not been to school . |
| 22 | Consequently , many farm children have never been to school . |
| 23 | We were taught at home by Mam 's maiden sister , Aunt Mary , who had not been to school herself . |
| 24 | She has been to school . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 26 | ‘ Have you never been to school ? ’ |
| 27 | We have all been to school , and many have children at school . |
| 28 | They have both been to school and like to speak their few words of English when their elders are not looking . ) |
| 29 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 30 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |