Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] at school " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , I 'd never erm , forgiven er people for beatings I got at school . |
| 2 | I recognised at school that I had the talent to become a politician when , at the end of a particularly bad term , the headmaster wrote on my report , ’ One can not help but be quite captivated by him , provided one gives him no work to do . ’ |
| 3 | Then suddenly , every morning when I arrived at school two kids would stand by the gate and shout out , ‘ Nigger , nigger , pull your trigger ! |
| 4 | Having entered for the shot putt and having practised by throwing half bricks at our next-door neighbour 's cat ( which happily stayed out of range of the missiles whilst becoming increasingly terrified by my ever-improving grunts ) I arrived at school feeling pretty confident . |
| 5 | At 8.45 I arrived at school my heart filled with delight as I stood amongst pupils in school uniform while I stood in my usual scruffy manner . |
| 6 | I was never invited to parties by the children I admired at school like Kathryn Watson who had a kilt pinned with a great silver safety pin . |
| 7 | I started at school in the 1920s , when we were taught how to knit the toe and heel of socks ( very handy in later life ) and I continued to knit later for my children , grandchildren and even a great-grandson until about four years ago when I developed knitter 's thumb ! |
| 8 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 9 | Life at home was good , I had become used to living with my parents , and gradually I integrated at school . |
| 10 | Something else I learned at school . ’ |
| 11 | more through magazines than I did at school , because in school I was taught nothing about pleasure , it was all very biological with a diagram of the male and the female , exactly what happened , there was nothing about er , sexually transmitted diseases , pleasure or abortion , contraception , nothing mentioned , only the mere basics . |
| 12 | " I could do well , but I think how I related to people was as important as how well I did at school . |
| 13 | Drama and theatre arts , that 's what I did at school erm |
| 14 | Ken , the chemistry I did at school was full of test tubes and horrid smells , has it changed very much ? |
| 15 | For the first half of 1946 I remained at school , where the privileged handful of us who had won our places at Oxford and Cambridge did no work , read widely , cycled to the seaside . |
| 16 | Think of all those dreadful jokes you suffered at school . |
| 17 | Was it something you heard at school ? |
| 18 | She wanted to say that he 'd feel all right when a little time had passed , just like you did at school when you were homesick at the beginning of term . |
| 19 | ‘ Is that what you learned at school today ? ’ |
| 20 | Tall , pretty , vivacious , with an eager and obvious appetite for every kind of experience , she fell in and out of love , as she had at school and college . |
| 21 | what you had at school . |
| 22 | ‘ We met at school — I was totally in awe of her ’ |
| 23 | One of the sex manuals we swapped at school |
| 24 | ‘ There was a radio programme we heard at school , ’ said Ruth . |
| 25 | Russian tanks were in Hungary in 1956 and we prayed at school for the dying , who were not Russian . |
| 26 | Remember that silly thing we did at school once me with Charlotte and Suzanne and somebody else , do you remember ? |
| 27 | ‘ He wrote a good poem we learned at school , ’ said Sir George . |
| 28 | They 've been together for fourteen years , they met at school . |
| 29 | But she did look at Gilbert when they arrived at school . |
| 30 | The piglet they bred at school has been declared supreme champion at one of the country 's top farming shows . |