Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] school [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Pupils often volunteer to continue after school with their project and practical work or they take advantage of links which the Department has built up with local industry and further education establishments .
2 Well when I was thirteen I supposed to be having b bad trouble and I went to doctor 's and instead of knocking off school at waiting till I was fourteen , I 'd finished at thirteen .
3 And Joe has come into school with a .
4 It is also the case that the great majority of students entering advanced courses in art and design have come from foundation courses , a few having come from school with GCE A level passes in art .
5 There 's a lot of new things happening in school with GCSE and the National Curriculum .
6 I 'll take quite a lot more interest in this competition now , and perhaps Sebastian here will get out of bed to train before school without being called six times — he only starts running practice about ten days before a competition , you know .
7 This rate differed from school to school , ranging from 5 per cent to 80 per cent .
8 While the children each paid 25p to come to school in clothes of their own choice , the staff dressed up St. Trinians style in uniform .
9 walking to school with no one around
10 Then there were the unwritten rules : girls travelling by train were not to travel in carriages with boys , and walking to school in the mornings , boys walked on one side of the road , girls on the other .
11 But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career .
12 Note that not any old ‘ junk ’ letter will do , but only personal letters addressed to School of Drawing and Painting , Edinburgh College of Art , Lauriston Place , Edinburgh EH3 9DF .
13 My father writes : ‘ Is teased at school about being vain , and no wonder .
14 Her mother fought for her to be educated at school like other children .
15 That 's why I 've applied for school in September .
16 what d' you wan na do after school like that
17 The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk .
18 Children of pre-school age came into school with their mothers and fathers .
19 Although the Act ( sec. 25 , 1944 Education Act ) would seem to give parents and pupils the right to practise a religion other than that ( Christianity ) , in general there is little or no provision made in school for any kind of peripatetic Muslim teacher to give lessons in Islam .
20 Walk to school with Ella .
21 A child who came to school at the age of five dirty and smelling of urine would never be able to benefit from the experience of school if , as a consequence , she were shunned and rejected by her classmates .
22 ‘ And when she came to school for me … ’
23 ‘ I came to school for a book , but I found a musician ! ’
24 These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter .
25 Boys who were caned at school for smoking were found to be more likely to increase their smoking than those not caned .
26 What he , what else can you do at school as extras
27 If I drop off school for erm no ?
28 The constitution and composition of this committee vary from school to school , as does its relationship with other parts of the school 's bureaucracy ( curriculum and resource sub-committees , senior management team etc . ) .
29 Considerable concern was expressed , for example by R. H. Tawney , about the numbers of boys going from school into unskilled jobs with little prospect of advancement , from which they might be dismissed when they became old enough to qualify for higher adult earnings .
30 From the teaching point of view , it is worth noting that Thomas is not under the pressure that children normally face in school of having to get their first thoughts down on paper in a finished , final form .
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