Example sentences of "[adv] at school " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , after two or three treatments , his coordination has improved and he is also doing much better at school . |
| 2 | They wanted us to do better at school ( be perfect ) . |
| 3 | Children whose mums joined the US programme did much better at school , added Anne . |
| 4 | Sociologists may attempt to improve on this by detailing specific areas of behaviour in which they are interested : how people behave in families , why some people are involved in crime , why some children perform better at school , and so on . |
| 5 | She 's working better at school , too . |
| 6 | Their inability to concentrate or order their thoughts means that they generally do not learn much at school , even though they may be quite intelligent . |
| 7 | My breasts had developed quite early , and although I was proud of them it was also embarrassing , especially at school . |
| 8 | Avoiding the foods in question may be quite difficult , especially at school or with friends , and you may wish to reconsider other options , especially if your child is not affected all that severely or if he reacts to a great many foods . |
| 9 | She fell down at school today and grazed her knees , but she did n't bat an eyelid . ’ |
| 10 | His loss was felt sharply , not only at School , but also in the town , and many tributes were paid to his work and a lifetime given to public service . |
| 11 | In our last letter you will remember we were concerned about what size of house we would have , how the children would settle in at school , how Jack would feel leaving paid employment . |
| 12 | It developed his imaginative skills ad self-confidence and helped him to settle in at school more easily . ’ |
| 13 | Do you think they 're all there then or are they all in at school ? |
| 14 | Do you think they 're all in at school ? |
| 15 | allowing careers officers to do t to call in at schools on a regular basis rather than trying to do |
| 16 | In fact , Shane ‘ Patrick Number Six ’ MacGowan and Shaun used to be in a group together at school long before The Pogues and the Mondays were formed . |
| 17 | Eleven-year old Samantha , their daughter , is away at school during term time , but Pauline keeps busy with a succession of visitors from all parts of the globe . |
| 18 | Mr Belcher said the only member of the Prime Minister 's household to regularly patronise them was son James , but he is now away at school . |
| 19 | Derek had finished building the aviary by himself and they had bought the bird that very afternoon while I was safely away at school . |
| 20 | He is six years older than I am , married , with two children away at school . |
| 21 | They have claimed that Sarah and Jane were barely troubled by the divorce as they were away at school , that Charles , aged four , was too young to understand while Diana , then seven , reacted to the break up with ‘ the unthinking resilience of her age ’ or even regarded it as ‘ fresh excitement ’ in her young life . |
| 22 | Some of them are away at school , some being looked after by Nanny , in the upper parts of the house . |
| 23 | It 's two minutes ' walk across the Park from the sombre baronial building where he has his office ; there 's no point in not living centrally now the children are away at school . |
| 24 | ‘ They 're away at school at present , ’ the woman said . |
| 25 | Only later did I appreciate what sacrifices my mother made to give it to us , and how lonely she must often have been when we were all away at school ; after our father 's death she became almost possessively devoted to us . |
| 26 | He said his mother died when he was away at school in the South of England when he was ten . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's just that Uncle was a cautious old devil and — ’ he looked away ‘ — he got the impression I was a bit of a spendthrift because — well , because I used to get through my allowance pretty rapidly when I was away at school , and … oh , hell , he wanted to make sure I was going to be dull and sensible about all that money when he finally kicked the bucket . |
| 28 | It had happened when she was away at school and her grandfather had glossed over the whole sorry business to the best of his ability . |
| 29 | In the short period , when Charlotte was away at school , that 's January eighteen thirty-one , to May eighteen thirty-two , he was writing well . |
| 30 | Erm because these are the sort of things that do n't come over at school . |