Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at school " in BNC.

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1 I mean , for example , I mean I 'm not saying this is an association but you might find in your dream , if you look to say I 'm back at school , then your association would be but I am at school now , the London School of Economics , do you see what I mean ?
2 I 'm at school .
3 When I 'm at school in England , I miss the place rather than my parents .
4 I 'm at school
5 ‘ Did you know that he and I were at school together ? ’
6 ‘ Rory 's a chap Bootsy and I were at school with , ’ she said .
7 See I 've got to remember , you see a few of them I had a load of them all talking , you know when I were at school ?
8 When I was at school in the seventies , one afternoon every week throughout the winter term , I put on a pair of ill-fitting plimsolls and plodded miserably , and for no apparent reason , around the wet pavements of a Sussex market town .
9 When I was at school , we were given spellings to learn every day and were allowed to get two out of ten wrong .
10 I could think that I was at school again , lying in the long grass waiting to bat , or walking over Berkshire downs or along a Devon valley .
11 The last term I was at school , I was eighteen , and therefore not entitled to a half-price season ticket .
12 Maybe when I was at school .
13 I was at school wie her .
14 I mean , I was at school with David Langdon !
15 ‘ When I was at school I had no idea that one day I 'd be captain of Yorkshire .
16 On the seventh spawning they knocked the glass down again , while I was at school , but my Dad put it up again before all the eggs were eaten .
17 When I was at school I was so good that I was n't allowed to answer the questions , but had to give the other girls a chance . ’
18 When I was at school I hated it , but when I left I wished I were back there .
19 I was at school for seven years .
20 Once when I was at school he told me that I should spend the entire summer working on improving my passing off my left hand and my kicking off my left foot .
21 When I was at school and university in the 1960s , when the myth of progress was still very much alive , my social and political lessons tended to recite the advances of the century as a long list of linear progress : the gradual emergence from primitivism to modern civilisation .
22 When I was at school , we used to take it in turns to visit a former pupil , a woman in her twenties , who lay in hospital incurably handicapped .
23 When I was at school in the 1930s and 1940s the canon would have included King-lake 's Eothen , Thomas Hughes 's Tom Brown 's Schooldays , Charles Kingsley 's The Water Babies and the essays of Charles Lamb , all little read by the young today .
24 I was at school with your father , you know .
25 Aunt Lilian had invented the Game when I was at school in order to increase my knowledge of world events and give me a sense of history .
26 My very first was with someone I was at school with , but he subsequently got married and vehemently denied he was gay .
27 When I was at school I was hopeless , hopeless .
28 I was at school with the bride .
29 I was at school with Guy … myself , Guy and Youth went to the same school together in Oxfordshire . ’
30 ‘ But seriously — if you had an accident when I was at school , you might lie there for hours .
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