Example sentences of "not [verb] to school " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 2 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 3 | Concentrations of sulphur dioxide from burning of low-grade coal at the region 's power stations led to a heavy smog in mid-February ; children were told not to go to school and some pregnant women were evacuated . |
| 4 | It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school . |
| 5 | quite happily and enjoying himself thoroughly and not going to school , which I think are are three excellent things . |
| 6 | ‘ What would my dad say about me not going to school ? ’ |
| 7 | Not going to school , and having to pretend I did n't live on the island all the time , has meant that I did n't grow up with anybody of my own age ( except Eric , of course , but even he was away for a long time ) , and about the time I was thinking of venturing further afield and getting to know more people Eric went crazy , and things got a bit uncomfortable in the town for a while . |
| 8 | Or is he not going to school this morning ? |
| 9 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 10 | Felt like not going to school I can tell you . |
| 11 | well I did n't really want to get out of bed and , well I do n't have to when I 'm not going to school I , I can have well |
| 12 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 13 | How can you play football and not go to school then ? |
| 14 | A situation exists where citizens have to alter their behaviour to ensure their safety ; children can not walk to school , it is too dangerous to ride a bicycle , and the elderly or disabled can not cross the road quickly enough . |
| 15 | Many of them bought them and would not walk to school in the mornings without one in their Bart Simpson satchels . |
| 16 | This was approached from two angles : first , what was known as the ‘ battle for the fourth grade ’ , an acknowledgement that substantial numbers of children either did not go to school or did not stay long enough to consolidate literacy . |
| 17 | In the meantime , the vast majority of Indian children either do not go to school or do not reach the end of primary school . |
| 18 | The boy did not go to school ; there was n't a school on the island , but his mother taught him to read and write and encouraged him to draw and paint pictures , she also recited poetry to him and sang to him when he was little … . ’ |
| 19 | There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 . |
| 20 | The testers might have got a clue from this that such a question was entirely artificial , constructed out of test situations and irrelevant to children who did not go to school and so were not used to being exposed to such tests . |
| 21 | The children did not go to school now , and Mother spent every day in her room , writing stories . |
| 22 | Edward did not go to school with other children . |
| 23 | He simply could not go to school . |
| 24 | His own son was so ragged that he dared not go to school … |
| 25 | The problem is especially great with the over 16 's who do not know English and who can not go to school . |
| 26 | I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs . |
| 27 | Yeah , but I might not go to school tomorrow . |
| 28 | To meet new people meant a lot to me because those of my Fontanellato friends who had not gone to school in Parma had already started work . |
| 29 | They do not come to school as empty vessels . |
| 30 | Parents were told last night that their children should not come to school due to the appalling standard of cleanliness resulting from the employment of contract cleaners . |