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

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1 He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen .
2 If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter .
3 I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school .
4 She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before .
5 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 ’ ?
6 Well when I was down at the er council that May , I told them there and then that er I 'm prepared to er let one of the council men come to our house , about eight o'clock in the morning , and then stop till ten and then come back again about two and wait till they come home from school which they would n't have come home from school , but they go across the road and come back again , double back as if they 'd been to school
7 ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school :
8 They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls .
9 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 .
10 Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university .
11 Arthur and Fred had been to school together .
12 Elizabeth told Betty that Wyn had been to school with Hywel , and Betty told Elizabeth that she had heard that the Welsh standard of education was very high .
13 Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars .
14 He had been to school originally because that 's what she said he , then he did n't go to school and that 's why she said you know , how is he and she said
15 little boy had been to school and his mother and father was waiting for him to come home .
16 Well consider again this brief moment , where we 're given a new glimpse of someone last seen surrounded by a God-like power , the rector of Clongoes , where the young and impressionable Stephen had been to school .
17 Dr. Crocker and Wexford had been at school together .
18 Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with .
19 He had been at school almost six months , the most miserable time of his entire life .
20 He admitted modestly that it was a long time since he had been at school , but one phrase he had understood was ‘ Vive la link box ! ’ .
21 They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds .
22 When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up .
23 Nurse de Wint , the staff nurse in permanent charge of the A.R.R. Unit , had been at school with Daisy and was one of her greatest friends .
24 He had been at School for over 21 years , teaching general subjects .
25 Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period .
26 To run it they chose a nineteen-year-old English girl who spoke French , had been at school with Jane and a Saturday assistant In Pelham Street for the past three years .
27 After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays .
28 According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home .
29 It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day .
30 Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me .
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