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

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1 On the other hand , Memet had been to public school , so that had probably finished him off …
2 Of the fathers of the boarders in these schools , 92 per cent were in the Registrar-General 's Class I or II , and 52 per cent had been to Public Schools themselves .
3 In education the party conformed more to what would be expected : 196 MPs had been to public schools ( 68 per cent of the party , twice the proportion of Liberals ) and eighty-six of these had been at Eton , almost a third of the party .
4 The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither .
5 From a random group of 36 judges of the Court of Appeal and the High Court , he found that 31 had been to public schools ( 86 per cent ) and 33 to Oxford or Cambridge ( 92 per cent ) .
6 Of the twenty non-royal knights who processed into the chapel , all except for the two former Labour prime ministers had been at public schools .
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