Example sentences of "went [prep] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no , I went through school really normally . |
| 2 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |
| 3 | ‘ The first day I went into school wearing shalwar kameez a teacher said to me , ‘ Are you all right , Yasmin ? |
| 4 | Each morning as soon as he went into school he was obliged to say , ‘ with a distinct voice ’ , ‘ Deus misereatur ’ and ‘ Kyrie eleison ’ together with other prayers . |
| 5 | Lyn went into school at fifteen when she was almost due to give birth . |
| 6 | And we used to arrange football teams , cricket teams , during the before you went into school , playtime and very often when you came out of school . |
| 7 | Well that 's why I did the other week , when I went into school I was children |
| 8 | Paula went into school this afternoon well today . |
| 9 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 10 | He went from school to college , and he graduated top of his class . |
| 11 | ‘ He could read and write before he went to school . |
| 12 | Measuring applause does not reveal that the movie was memorable for the woman in the third row because the building on screen reminded her of where she went to school and all those childhood memories came flooding back intercut with the film while the auditorium gently shook as an underground train passed beneath and cigarette ash fluttered down from the balcony in the projector beam . |
| 13 | We went to school together at St Clement Danes , an all-boys grammar school in West London , at the tail end of the period in which secondary education was split by the 11-plus into grammar schools for those who passed and secondary schools for the rest . |
| 14 | They went to school in Pakistan . |
| 15 | I used to have a bike before I went to school . |
| 16 | I did n't make friends easily , but the funny thing is that some of those I went to school with , and was n't so close to , have become good friends in later life . |
| 17 | David was 4½ when he first went to school and not unlike most mothers Mrs Jones was upset at not having him around the house . |
| 18 | Next morning , Dot was surprised when Gloria got up early and left for the Housing Applicant Office the same time as she went to school . |
| 19 | ( Only now do I realize how strong the desire in her for a daughter must have been to cause her to dress her youngest son as a little girl almost until the day he went to school , his fair hair nearly reaching his waist ; yet he had grown up a man . ) |
| 20 | ‘ I was dragged up down Monkey Park , went to school wi' me arse hanging out ; I 've worked for everything I 've got . ’ |
| 21 | A few months ago , I went to school like any other girl . |
| 22 | I was eating cakes in the morning before I went to school and for about two years I was dieting , trying one diet or another . |
| 23 | ‘ I went to school with the son Joe , ’ he added . |
| 24 | They went to school in Switzerland , which is where our real home is . |
| 25 | In New York , where I went to school , some extremely busy and stressed people use the streets , but New Yorkers understand that there is a code of ethics governing running . |
| 26 | Mr Steve Norris , 46 , a self-made millionaire representing the wealthy Essex constituency of Epping Forest , who went to school with two of the Beatles , becomes Parliamentary Under Secretary Transport . |
| 27 | We went to school together and now both work at Templeton 's . ’ |
| 28 | When we were children , before we went to school , |
| 29 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 30 | Jenny went to school at a tiny schoolhouse in the dale attended mostly by farmers ' children , but out of school she had no one at all to play with , so she had to amuse herself as best she could . |