Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] at school " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hey , I ca n't wait to tell them at school . |
| 2 | Dimly doing her best to remember what they 'd taught her at school , Diane believed that she 'd managed to work out the map reference by the time that Ross Aldridge arrived at the Hall . |
| 3 | But Keith really dreads leaving it at school . |
| 4 | I did n't want to do it at school or at home . |
| 5 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 6 | ‘ They must have told you at school ! ’ |
| 7 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 8 | They should n't have left me at school . |
| 9 | Mrs said th , there 's too much of a confidential nature goes on in school and , I 'm not allowed to do it at school . |
| 10 | They have never been accepted as an equal ‘ nation ’ within Yugoslavia ; they have difficulty in obtaining recognition for their language ( except in Kosovo , where however there is now a threat that in future the official language will be Serbocroatian , and that all Albanian children will be forced to learn it at school ) ; and they consider that Serbs , in particular , regard them as inferiors and potential enemies . |
| 11 | This was style , as they had taught her at school . |
| 12 | He reminded her of a mathematics mistress who had taught her at school . |
| 13 | Most studies focus on school achievement , but this may be misleading because there is evidence to suggest that Afro-Caribbean and Asian students are more likely than white students to stay on in further education and some do manage to obtain academic qualifications that had eluded them at school ( Craft and Craft , 1983 ) , while one investigation suggests that young black people in inner city areas had gained better academic qualifications than white youth in the same areas ( Roberts , Duggan and Noble , 1983 ) , a finding borne out more generally by some other studies ( Brown , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | But of course the beauty of it is you 've done it at school have n't you ? |
| 15 | And once you 've done it at school , it comes back with a bit of an effort quite quickly . |
| 16 | Barry had told them at school that his Dad had bought him a tarantula . |
| 17 | A planchette , they had called it at school . |
| 18 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 19 | It is surprising how few students realize the full potential of simple diatonic harmony , even after they have studied it at school and university . |