Example sentences of "school [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year she had come to his school for the first time , and every eye had turned to gape at her long red hair and golden earrings as she swept into the assembly-hall wearing one of her special dresses . |
| 2 | I remember too being taken to school for the first time . |
| 3 | One of the boys was Charlie , who 'd bothered to turn up to school for the first time in weeks . |
| 4 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 5 | She was five and a half when she entered school for the first time . |
| 6 | After being taken round by a six or seven year old , parents visiting the school for the first time were given the opportunity to talk to me or to one of my colleagues . |
| 7 | I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time . |
| 8 | He summarizes the kind of attitudes and assumptions towards religion which a majority of children when they arrive in school for the first time will be likely already to have assimilated . |
| 9 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
| 10 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 11 | Jeremy started school during the first week in January , and she was glad to see him engrossed in his own school affairs and friendships again . |
| 12 | Neil , from Sutton , who had joined the school during the first week of the project ( after causing severe behavioural problems at his previous schools ) commented : ‘ You 've got ta have good questions or they do n't say enough . ’ |
| 13 | I ran for the school from the first year onwards , and this helped me tremendously . |
| 14 | Is that something that you feel may come from the ‘ hothouse ’ atmosphere of drama school in the first place ? |
| 15 | In a gloom at being at school in the first place and being next to Heather in the second , I push my hands into my jeans pocket — we are n't supposed to wear jeans at school — and discover some chewing gum , antique but welcome . |
| 16 | When his mother took him to school on the first day , he decided from then onwards he could make his own way to school and did n't hesitate in telling his mother just that . |
| 17 | The show is held in the Roman Catholic Junior School on the first Tuesday in August , a fixed date having been chosen so everyone always knows when they should aim to have their berries ready . |