Example sentences of "[noun] left [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |
| 2 | Burnhill , Garner and McPherson report that , controlling for social class , the odds of an individual both of whose parents left school after age 17 qualifying for HE are around seven times greater than a contemporary both of whose parents left school at 15 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Fifty Britons left Heathrow at 6 pm on Sunday for Karachi . |
| 5 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 6 | 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 + + |
| 7 | This is because Bill left school at fourteen years of age in the ‘ bad old days ’ and has had a pretty varied career . |
| 8 | It was revealed also by the R.A.F. that when Leslie 's plane left Fairford at 23.20 hours on 17 June it had a glider in tow . |
| 9 | Jim left school at sixteen , joined a Y T S scheme , years ago , with an electrics company . |
| 10 | Rogers left school at ten or earlier and became an errand boy . |