Example sentences of "school [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So it was considered by the staff that the best solution would be to close the school for the afternoon .
2 And then we 've got to take Christopher back to school for the afternoon .
3 Would they find each other much changed , or would it be like it was when he had come back from school for the holidays ?
4 Sentence ( 195 ) is pronounced by Cashel Byron as he recounts what used to happen when he went home from boarding school for the holidays : " As to the holidays , they were the worst part of the year to me .
5 The gendarmes will be at Sandhills school for the rest of the week , and anyone interested in teaching their school about road safety is urged to take part .
6 ‘ It 's been a great school for the temper . ’
7 Robert , Ann and I were in a peculiar position in the elementary school for the Headmaster was our father .
8 Released at last from her dancing , Pamela Dillon was sent to St Margaret 's , Bushey , a school for the orphans of clergymen — an odd choice , for both her parents were anti-clerical .
9 A Sunday school for the half-pints .
10 She was in trouble later bullying other kids , getting into fights , knocking down all the garbage cans in an alley , pulling fire alarms in her lunch break at school for the thrill of seeing the fire trucks go by , shoplifting .
11 And if we 're offering you your passage home , you and the children , and help in finding your feet once you get there , and a good convent school for the girls , so that they can go straight on with the nuns and wo n't really notice any difference , well , all that 's to be regarded as a loan , which we 're very glad to offer you for an extended period , in the hopes of getting you back among caring people . "
12 He simply would not accept that her two children should be allowed any further time off school for the purpose of family holidays .
13 One of the eight described the importance of the school for the flow of information through the community .
14 Fabian is studying at secondary school for the abitur or school-leaving certificate ( equivalent to English A-levels ) , and also learning to be a construction worker .
15 How do you inform parents that the overnight heavy snow storm or a broken boiler is going to unexpectedly close the school for the day ?
16 The next morning , after Master had gone off to school for the day , Sergeant decided to pay a visit to Riverbank to see his new friend Anabelle Hedgehog .
17 By the time I was ten , Granpa allowed me to lay out the morning wares on the barrow before going off to school for the day .
18 NUTFIELD PRIORY , AN enormous Victorian Gothic mansion near Reigate , had for many years been a school for the blind .
19 The first school for the blind was established in 1791 and there were a dozen or more such institutions by 1870 .
20 For many years he has been the Fund Raising Organizer for the British Rail Support Group , Condover Hall School for the Blind , a position he still holds .
21 This year we sold books , souvenirs and model parts in co-operation with our member Len Davies , the proceeds going mainly to aid the Condover School for the Blind .
22 It would be common sense to send the children to a school for the blind .
23 In 1907 , at the age of five , he was brought back to Scotland where he attended , first , the village school in Drymen , and , from 1908 to 1920 , the School for the Sons of Missionaries in London ( later Eltham College ) .
24 The Head Girl of Malvern Girls ' College and a scientist contemporary represented the Upper VI , and here again they had different backgrounds , one having joined the school from a smaller boarding school for the Vl form , and the other having gone right through at Malvern .
25 The city 's education officials and leaders of Liverpool 's Catholic and Anglican churches are considering a new ‘ joint Christian ’ primary school for the Croxteth Park district .
26 It also abolished the ‘ half-time ’ system by which children worked for part of the day and attended school for the remainder .
27 She wrote a well-received history of her old school for the Essex Record Office and is working on a local history having followed up her study in this field by taking the London University Diploma in Local History .
28 — Parents and teachers are responsible for providing the right conditions at home and in school for the achievement of goals .
29 A school for the boys was thought of , later . ’
30 There was a school for the boys at the end of the road .
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