Example sentences of "[prep] school [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 2 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 3 | I remember too being taken to school for the first time . |
| 4 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 5 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 6 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 7 | In a gloom at being at school in the first place and being next to Heather in the second , I push my hands into my jeans pocket — we are n't supposed to wear jeans at school — and discover some chewing gum , antique but welcome . |