Example sentences of "left school at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 2 | I left school at sixteen — a job in a publishing company came through the school employment system and that was it . |
| 3 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 4 | Jim left school at sixteen , joined a Y T S scheme , years ago , with an electrics company . |
| 5 | Left school at 17 when she got pregnant , married , now separated , with two kids . |
| 6 | So when I left school at 17 to become a hairdresser , I was lovely and slim . |
| 7 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 8 | But it also meant that when I left school at 14 it was not possible to think about finding a job or life away from the farm . |
| 9 | Cook left school at 14 to become an apprentice , got involved with radar and electronics during National Service , and graduated from Queen Mary College , London . |
| 10 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |
| 11 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
| 12 | Adventure and possibility lay before them , as they had not lain before Liz 's sister Shirley , who married at nineteen and stayed on in Northam , or before Dora Sutcliffe who left school at fifteen and sold sweets in Woolworth 's until she married Shirley 's husband 's brother Steve . |
| 13 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |
| 14 | But Shirley Millings , who left school at fifteen , did n't think like this . |
| 15 | I left school at fifteen years of age . |
| 16 | She left school at fourteen . |
| 17 | I think we forget , in these days , that in the Thirties a young person left school at fourteen , and in many cases , went straight to a job . |
| 18 | Both left school at fourteen : my father to work as a butcher 's messenger boy , my mother to learn machining in a shirt factory . |
| 19 | Norman , who left school at fourteen , did around a year as a plumber 's mate before running away from home and working on a Norwegian ship bound for Persia . |
| 20 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 21 | He left school at fourteen and after several jobs became apprenticed to a toolmaker and joined the Amalgamated Society of Toolmakers in March 1916 . |
| 22 | As the breadwinner in the family , he left school at fourteen , and for the next four years he was apprenticed as a sculptor and tomb-cutter to the firm of stonemasons , J. & G. Mossman . |
| 23 | He left school at fourteen and became an apprentice with the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company — part of the great Glasgow international chemical empire generated by the Tennant family . |
| 24 | Because we went b I think I was n't er a very well child and the doct when I left school the doctor said I left school at fourteen and he said I had to erm find a job out of doors . |
| 25 | This is because Bill left school at fourteen years of age in the ‘ bad old days ’ and has had a pretty varied career . |
| 26 | birthday was on the eighth of September or before , if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September , you could leave school and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen . |
| 27 | When I left school at first I was er in meat wholesale in Glasgow right . |
| 28 | Nearly 55 per cent of people who have been in higher education had been to the theatre in the survey period , but fewer than 19 per cent of those who left school at 16 . |
| 29 | Most of us left school at 16 with four O-levels , including art and needlework , but here was a high-flying Cambridge man . |
| 30 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |