Example sentences of "not at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 2 | The workhouse management committee recommended that ‘ with regard to children still in the workhouse , the older girls should be employed , when not at school , in making/mend or other useful work and as soon as practicable should be sent out as domestic servants ’ . |
| 3 | Why was Jasper not at school ? |
| 4 | ‘ When you 're not at school , I mean . |
| 5 | Oh now erm you 're not at school next week do you |
| 6 | One of my first jobs in the morning , when I was not at school , was to sweep out the customers ' part of the shop . |
| 7 | ‘ Not at school ? ’ |
| 8 | But you were always allowed home when the children were not at school . |
| 9 | When we were not at school , we were under canvas , often as not , and far from the crack-crazed cities of Europe . |
| 10 | If you are not at school or college , write after 1 June in the year preceding university entry to UCAS , PO Box 67 , Cheltenham , Glos GLSO 3SF , for a handbook and application form using the tear-off sheet at the end of this prospectus . |
| 11 | They ask the youngsters why they 're not at school . |
| 12 | The question should then be asked : How much did it cost to have them on the streets because they surely were not at school ? |
| 13 | Now , they do n't get anything for that six weeks that they 're not at school . |
| 14 | But you 're not at school . |
| 15 | Officially she is not at school any more . |
| 16 | I do n't know what , which day it is , but Monday we 're not at school . |
| 17 | We 're not at school , that 's the point . |
| 18 | He had never been short of girl-friends , not at university anyway . |
| 19 | How comes you 're not at university though ? |
| 20 | And Jed would be smiling , not at Zervos and his torrent of language , but at the memory of the $10,000 , the eight thousand $1.25s , that he had thrown in Creed 's face . |
| 21 | We drink and eat in the daytime but not at night and so there is an excess of fluid and salts in the body in the daytime , and a deficit during the night . |
| 22 | If frequency is present , it occurs usually only during the day and not at night . |
| 23 | For this protective advertisement to be effective , it must be seen ; so these frogs , unlike most others , are active not at night but during the day , moving boldly around the forest floor , confident and secure in their brilliant livery . |
| 24 | ‘ Not at night … ‘ |
| 25 | Certainly not at night you wo n't get a lot , no . |
| 26 | From now he will be treated as a Soviet offender , that is why he is not at Camp 5 … |
| 27 | As the transfer was not at arms ' length I had to obtain an estimate of the market value of the house and forward this to the Inland Revenue Stamps Office . |
| 28 | They will go home with pride intact , but disappointed we are not at Wembley . ’ |
| 29 | Yet Ellcock , an intelligent man with strong views on the game , graciously allowed the Daily Mail to photograph him ‘ celebrating ’ at home watching Sky TV as Wayne Larkins hit the winning run in the Jamaica Test when he probably felt like crying again because he was not at Sabina Park to share the moment . |
| 30 | Not at Paul Hill 's remembrance of beatings past , when he could hear the sound of steel-tipped boots running to take part in the fun , and once heard a principal medical officer , no less , telling colleagues : ‘ Do n't walk his face , do n't walk his face . ’ |