Example sentences of "i leave [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What should I do if I leave school at eleven thirty because I 've got a dental appointment ? |
| 2 | Because we went b I think I was n't er a very well child and the doct when I left school the doctor said I left school at fourteen and he said I had to erm find a job out of doors . |
| 3 | birthday was on the eighth of September or before , if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September , you could leave school and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen . |
| 4 | When I left school at first I was er in meat wholesale in Glasgow right . |
| 5 | I left school at sixteen — a job in a publishing company came through the school employment system and that was it . |
| 6 | I left school at fifteen years of age . |
| 7 | But it also meant that when I left school at 14 it was not possible to think about finding a job or life away from the farm . |
| 8 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 9 | I left school at 16 without much in the way of qualifications . |
| 10 | So when I left school at 17 to become a hairdresser , I was lovely and slim . |
| 11 | ‘ I left school at 19 , and at 21 worked in a restaurant as a waiter because I was ‘ too old ’ to train as a chef . |
| 12 | I grew up wanting not so much money as glamour , and when I left school at 15 I went to work in the department store , Bourne & Hollingsworth . |
| 13 | I left school at 15 under a Labour Government . |
| 14 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |