Example sentences of "had [verb] at school " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 2 | All the friends she had made at school were now married . |
| 3 | Fortunately I had with me a book of prose exercises that we had used at school , so , at random I chose one which I vaguely remembered . |
| 4 | Just because I had a bat and had played at school , they assumed I was some kind of expert . |
| 5 | ‘ Flick 's made a hit , ’ Gay observed that night , strolling into Breeze 's bedroom clad in the patched pyjamas she had worn at school . |
| 6 | I always relished this sight , which closely resembled the fantasies I had harboured at school , a gang of jocks and bullies tormented by a puny swot . |
| 7 | One of the younger adopted children she had known at school , a very charming and beautiful girl of Indian parentage , some years later made contact with her again , and they talked about fashions and make-up together . |
| 8 | The feelings retained their freshness in his memory : the delicious agony of watching her ; the frustration of not being able to touch her ; the pleasure he had when someone he had known at school passed along the towpath , looked up and saw him , Peter Redburn , having a drink with Kate Molland . |
| 9 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |
| 10 | It was a trick I had learned at school , to get out of netball . |
| 11 | Instead , Willis found that his lads were very well prepared for work in factories where they could use the same ‘ survival ’ techniques as they had learned at school . |
| 12 | Jessica had been getting out of the house for a while since just after the youngest of the boys had begun at school . |
| 13 | The domestic skills I had acquired at school and perfected looking after Father when Mother died , were not skills valued by Helmut . |
| 14 | An essay of his I had read at school entitled ‘ Religion without Humanism ’ , from a symposium published under the title of Humanism and America ( 1930 ) , edited by Norman Foerster , had excited scant interest on this side of the Atlantic . |