Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 2 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 3 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 4 | My mother and Marie Claire and Lili had all been at school together in Egypt . |
| 5 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 6 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 7 | I suddenly knew I had either to behave like a shocked girl who had still been at school that time the year before ; or like an adult . |
| 8 | Educationally , girls work harder and do better than if they had still been in school . |
| 9 | Rufus put up two or three names , one being of someone they had both been at school with . |
| 10 | She told the interpreter that ‘ although she had never been to school she liked the life she lived . ’ |