Example sentences of "my [adj] school [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bride is one of my greatest school friends . |
| 2 | ‘ My old school friend 's just had a baby . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to visit my old school friend Nellie Musgrove , who lives in the Via Botteghe Oscure , ’ said Daisy firmly , ‘ so I may get Edwin to take me along there . |
| 4 | I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week . |
| 5 | By the time you 're thirty you 'll have skin like my old school satchel . ’ |
| 6 | I picked up my books and stuffed them away in my old school satchel , the one my father — Tata — had given me when I won my open scholarship to St Paul 's . |
| 7 | A lot of my old school friends are doing that now and they are just hanging loose without a care in the world , it sounds great . |
| 8 | Eventually , I recover , and come to enjoy my mother and my old school friends , and the easy , sunny inertia of L.A. I swim every day and I love the blue sparkle of the pool , the glare of the sun and the sky on the water , and myself cleansed and pristine in the chlorinated wet of my morning routine , pre-smog , post-dope ; boys with blond moustaches saying , ‘ Have a good one ’ ; my baby blue Rent-a-car . |
| 9 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 10 | As soon as it 's light , my old school chums Finlayson , Richards and Callaghan will come with me and patrol the area Roeux-Riencourt . |
| 11 | My personal assistant was my high school sweetheart , Mrs Simpson , who was a complete nutcase . |
| 12 | MY MOTHER , being concerned about the reading habits of the young Little , once expressed her concern to my primary school headmaster . |
| 13 | My Primary School Days |
| 14 | Once I had been there a little while I really settled in and really enjoyed my primary school days . |
| 15 | Towards the end of my primary school years I went on a holiday with my year to Kent with my friends and many other pupils and teachers . |
| 16 | The lessons took place during the evening and then only after I had finished my regular school work for the day . |
| 17 | My grey school skirt would be swapped for a rock-and-roll dirndl and six net petticoats , painstakingly dipped in sugar water to make them stiff when dry ; after the first four dances , the heat from my body would melt the sugar and my nylons would stick together . |
| 18 | ‘ I dyed my grey school skirt dark red . ’ |
| 19 | One amusing thing was that after all my worry about dress it turned out I was the overdressed character for everyday he wore a different combination of tee shirt and jeans while I wore my neat school uniform . |
| 20 | My Secondary School days from Year 7 to Year 10 |
| 21 | In 1945 I worked hard at my Higher School Certificate subjects of English , French , and history — the Tudors and Stuarts , of course — and tried to decide whether I should have preferred to be Thomas Wolsey or Thomas More . |
| 22 | When Clement Attlee became Prime Minister in 1945 I had just completed my Higher School Certificate in the traditional three subjects , with a year to spare before being called up for National Service . |
| 23 | ‘ Also , we need to give an especially big Berkeley welcome to Dr Dorothy Streeter , who 's joining our art department , ’ intoned the headmaster during my first school assembly there . |
| 24 | So there at Janet 's Foss was my first school trip of the season . |
| 25 | But when I reached the foss I encountered not a fairy , but my first school party of the day . |
| 26 | In fact , the only embarrassing moment the entire afternoon came when Daphne carried the tray out into the kitchen — something I suspected she had seldom done before — and spotted my final school report pinned to the pantry door . |
| 27 | One teacher I interviewed in my middle school study , for instance , felt she had not been well treated in the reorganization to a middle school set-up and had resisted the head 's attempts at change ‘ We do n't , some of us do n't change so easily ! ’ |
| 28 | My special school friend Alf Norris lived in Greencroft Street and only the road separated his house from The Crot . |
| 29 | My last school trip |