Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' school [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys .
2 The majority were used as gunnery trainers at 1 Naval Air Gunners ' School at Yarmouth , Nova Scotia .
3 With Nurse 's letter folded in his hand , he ran all the way down to the infants ' school on the corner before stopping to catch his breath .
4 One day in February , just six weeks after Sarah accepted Nahum Morey 's proposal , Edward Wooldridge ran home from the Chertsey Infants ' School on the corner of St Anne 's Road as fast as his six-year-old legs would carry him .
5 This he abandoned in 1852 , joining the office of Edinburgh architect John Lessels , and enrolling as a part-time student at the Trustees ' School of Design , Edinburgh , that same year , under Alexander Christie .
6 Three years ago , having worked as a psychologist for 10 years and become disillusioned with traditional psychotherapy , Sobchak opened Russia 's first Ladies ' School of Charm as an experiment .
7 Scholars ' president looks to famous ancestor The Rev. John Douglas will seek his inspiration from a famous ancestor when he returns to the Friends ' School at Great Ayton as president of the Old Scholars ' Association .
8 Durham , in 1923 , the son of Henry Percy and Stella Barclay Douglas , Mr Douglas was sent to the Friends ' School after attending St. Olave 's Boys ' Preparatory School in Ripon now attached to the cathedral as the choir school .
9 On 18 November 1898 Miss Smart was appointed to the Girls ' School at £50 rising to £60 per annum , and Miss Townsend appointed Certificated Assistant at £65 , rising to £75 per annum .
10 However many feathers must have been ruffled in the process Eva survived and received a further vote of confidence iii her leadership skills when she was appointed principal of Usher Institute , a girls ' school with a growing reputation , south of Howard in Matabeleland .
11 Claire McGahan has been to visit Glenlola Collegiate in Bangor to try and uncover the secret of success that has put the Co Down girls ' school into the spotlight .
12 In 1916 the 2nd Earl of Feversham was killed at the Battle of the Somme and the house became a girls ' school until 1895 .
13 The house became a girls ' school until 1980 when the grounds were developed for housing .
14 Berkshire planned to amalgamate the 300-pupil Southlands Girls ' School in Reading with a neighbouring boys ' school , selling the site for about £7 million , putting up £3 million of public money , and raising another £3 million from commercial sponsors .
15 She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy .
16 Socially , though , he and Karen , who taught part-time at a girls ' school in Headington , were both from a lower-middle-class , comp/tech background , and it may not have been only the fearsome price of property in the North Oxford heartlands which had put them off moving there .
17 Mrs Williams , 54 , is the former headmistress of St Paul 's Girls ' school in London who was forced to quit by a parents ' rebellion over an attempt to limit the number of GCSEs her girls sat .
18 In the present case , the voluntary aided school in question , The Bishop Challoner Roman Catholic Comprehensive Girls ' School in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets , adopted the following admission policy :
19 Dorothea Beale , the Principal of the first proprietary girls ' school in England , Cheltenham Ladies College , was firmly committed to a separate curriculum for girls and declared that her aim was to train ‘ girls so that they may best perform that subordinate part in the world to which , I believe , they have been called ’ .
20 She taught music in a private girls ' school in Edinburgh .
21 At least five association members were made redundant by the Roman Catholic boys ' school of Ampleforth , North Yorkshire , last year .
22 Angel had had a magical childhood , bucking the system at the smart Buenos Aires boys ' school of Champagnat and living during the term time in a large house in the Avenidad del Libertador .
23 Although they proposed retaining the City of London Boys ' School on the Embankment , all buildings behind , including the School of Music , would be swept away .
24 After being dismissed from his post as head of religious education at King 's Norton Boys ' School in December 1988 , Mr Nicholson began a fight for compensation .
25 During my first year at the Boys ' School in 1922 , Bonfire Night was held on a Saturday ; November 5th falling on a Sunday that year .
26 The TV star and founder of ChildLine said the article alleged she protected teacher Alex Standish because of help he had given her team in exposing child abuse at Crookham Court boys ' school in Thatcham , near Newbury , Berks .
27 The clergy daughters ' school at Cowan Bridge run by the Reverend William .
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