Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 6 | She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before . |
| 7 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was years since she had ridden a bike too , not since she had been at school and had cycled home each day . |
| 10 | Peter Boardman , who had been at School between 1956 and 1969 , was one of the best-known names in British mountaineering at this period . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been at school almost six months , the most miserable time of his entire life . |
| 19 | 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 ! ’ . |
| 20 | He had been at School for over 21 years , teaching general subjects . |
| 21 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | 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 . |