Example sentences of "[vb past] school [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 2 | Jeremy started school during the first week in January , and she was glad to see him engrossed in his own school affairs and friendships again . |
| 3 | At last it was all over , and burdened with farewell gifts , Cassie left school on the final day to be faced with the prospect of the long summer holiday . |
| 4 | I left school at the early age of twelve and a half , my father having died when I was nine . |
| 5 | Official concern was focused mainly upon the bottom forty per cent — those who left school at the minimum age and entered ‘ dead end ’ jobs . |
| 6 | As might be expected women who left school at the minimum age had the largest families , but the best educated were next in line . |
| 7 | He left school before the last lesson at three , went into town for pie and chips , got stocked up with coke and doughnuts for supper and went up to Firelight 's field . |
| 8 | GCE O and A levels were devised when a large proportion of children left school after the fifth year , and when it was therefore sensible to have a block of examinations taken in that year , to operate partly as a school-leaving certification , partly as a screen , to select those who would stay on . |