Example sentences of "go to the [adj] school " in BNC.

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1 They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do .
2 I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones .
3 Residents in the service road not surprisingly are complaining that excessive speeds are used er by these vehicles using this rat run and this is causing a danger to children going to the local school at that time of the day .
4 and one day she said , Now then John I want to go to the other school to Mr , the schoolmaster to get a book .
5 When you sat your qualifying exam to go to the high school , er what happened to the people who did n't pass ?
6 We your Memorialists therefore pray that your Worshipful Company will reduce the number of scholars to such an amount as will ensure scholars with whom a tradesman 's son ought to associate , leaving others to go to the National Schools . "
7 Claydon has made no secret of the fact that his immediate goal is to win enough to secure a Tour Card for 1990 without having to go to the Qualifying School at La Manga .
8 In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children :
9 It was strange that she was in no way jealous of Jessie being her father 's choice for betterment , because Jessie herself had n't wanted to go to the Secretarial School , nor had her mother wanted her to go .
10 Helen 's , Helen 's girl goes to the big school next year .
11 Social workers went to the primary school in St Margaret 's Hope , a brand new open-plan building , and removed them from there in front of the other children .
12 And er we left and we never went back there , that 's when I went to the private school .
13 Everybody seemed to be praying ; except , of course , the children who went to the Ragged School and those who flooded The Courts at the back of the house and round about …
14 When we returned to Rangoon , you and Margaret went to the Diocesan School where Miss Hardy was headmistress .
15 After the games session , Bodie went to the main school building , and spoke with the headmaster , in the main study , which overlooked the front playing grounds .
16 Before leaving Brooklyn for London , she did some off-Broadway productions , went to the High School Of Performing Arts and was disappointed when she missed getting a part in Fame because she was too young .
17 All three people went to the High School .
18 Thence he went to the English School at St. Omer before entering the priesthood .
19 In 1979 I went to the English Schools Championships for the first time , to run in the 200 metres for London .
20 You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association .
21 The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs .
22 It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities .
23 Yes indeed , she knew now if she had ever gone to the Ragged School that 's what would have happened .
24 She remembered , too , how surprised she had been when Ben had said , ‘ Well , you can go to the Ragged School and see if you like it there .
25 Another funny thing she had had to have explained to her was why some grown-ups would go to the Ragged School at night time .
26 And he got hi I think their children go to the Catholic School .
27 And he g he I think their children go to the Catholic school .
28 Oh you will go when you go to the other school .
29 Okay erm your children go to the local schools do they ?
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