Example sentences of "left [noun sg] at 14 " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 2 | But it also meant that when I left school at 14 it was not possible to think about finding a job or life away from the farm . |
| 3 | Cook left school at 14 to become an apprentice , got involved with radar and electronics during National Service , and graduated from Queen Mary College , London . |
| 4 | The young Haworth left school at 14 to work in the factory and was required to pick up a knowledge of dyestuffs . |
| 5 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |