Example sentences of "[pers pn] left school at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we went b I think I was n't er a very well child and the doct when I left school the doctor said I left school at fourteen and he said I had to erm find a job out of doors . |
| 2 | birthday was on the eighth of September or before , if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September , you could leave school and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen . |
| 3 | When I left school at first I was er in meat wholesale in Glasgow right . |
| 4 | I left school at sixteen — a job in a publishing company came through the school employment system and that was it . |
| 5 | I left school at fifteen years of age . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I left school at 16 without much in the way of qualifications . |
| 9 | So when I left school at 17 to become a hairdresser , I was lovely and slim . |
| 10 | ‘ I left school at 19 , and at 21 worked in a restaurant as a waiter because I was ‘ too old ’ to train as a chef . |
| 11 | I grew up wanting not so much money as glamour , and when I left school at 15 I went to work in the department store , Bourne & Hollingsworth . |
| 12 | I left school at 15 under a Labour Government . |
| 13 | She left school at fourteen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 16 | He left school at fourteen and after several jobs became apprenticed to a toolmaker and joined the Amalgamated Society of Toolmakers in March 1916 . |
| 17 | As the breadwinner in the family , he left school at fourteen , and for the next four years he was apprenticed as a sculptor and tomb-cutter to the firm of stonemasons , J. & G. Mossman . |
| 18 | He left school at fourteen and became an apprentice with the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company — part of the great Glasgow international chemical empire generated by the Tennant family . |
| 19 | He left school at 15 , worked as a labourer and then a printer and became active in trade union and Labour Party politics . |
| 20 | Most of us left school at 16 with four O-levels , including art and needlework , but here was a high-flying Cambridge man . |