Example sentences of "not go [prep] school " in BNC.

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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 How can you play football and not go to school then ?
13 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 .
14 In the meantime , the vast majority of Indian children either do not go to school or do not reach the end of primary school .
15 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 … . ’
16 There were no European schools in Narayanganj so that I did not go to school until I was 12 ; Jon was 14 .
17 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 .
18 The children did not go to school now , and Mother spent every day in her room , writing stories .
19 Edward did not go to school with other children .
20 He simply could not go to school .
21 His own son was so ragged that he dared not go to school
22 The problem is especially great with the over 16 's who do not know English and who can not go to school .
23 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 .
24 Yeah , but I might not go to school tomorrow .
25 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 .
26 Is n't going to school .
27 Well , he would n't go into school now , he thought , close to tears .
28 One small corpse found recently in a fashionable district bore the warning : ‘ I kill all those who do n't go to school . ’
29 There are children who do n't go to school — the national figures are that roughly 150,000 children do not attend school in the primary school age group .
30 TRAGIC LUCY CA N'T GO TO SCHOOL WITH PALS
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