Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 2 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 3 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 4 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 5 | Little Carl Mozart , then seven-years-old , had been sent to school in Perchtholdsdorf , a suburb of Vienna , and Mozart drove out on 13 October to collect him and take him and his grandmother Weber to see a performance of The Magic Flute . |
| 6 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 7 | We on these Benches agree with his wish that the money thrown at the poll tax had been invested in schools , hospitals and job creation . |
| 8 | On average , therefore , the incidence of head lice in the urban child was about three times higher than had been recorded by school medical officers before the war . |
| 9 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 10 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 11 | He would remember every time he had been humiliated at school or home , exaggerating the feeling and circumstances involved . |
| 12 | She said the present structure of ‘ regular , structured and systematic ’ inspections must be kept , and said considerable abuse had been found in schools . |
| 13 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 14 | The move attracted especial attention because compulsory religious education had been introduced in schools with considerable publicity only in 1982 . |