Example sentences of "i left [noun sg] at [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Because we went b I think I was n't er a very well child and the doct when I left school the doctor said I left school at fourteen and he said I had to erm find a job out of doors . |
2 | birthday was on the eighth of September or before , if it was in the summer holidays or up until the eighth of September , you could leave school and my birthday was the eighth of September so I left school at fourteen . |
3 | When I left school at first I was er in meat wholesale in Glasgow right . |
4 | I left school at sixteen — a job in a publishing company came through the school employment system and that was it . |
5 | I left school at fifteen years of age . |
6 | But it also meant that when I left school at 14 it was not possible to think about finding a job or life away from the farm . |
7 | When I left school at 14 , I was beginning to feel strange urges within me — an awakening of manhood , a desire to assert myself as an adult , a different feeling towards girls , especially when they would touch me on the body . |
8 | I left school at 16 without much in the way of qualifications . |
9 | So when I left school at 17 to become a hairdresser , I was lovely and slim . |
10 | ‘ I left school at 19 , and at 21 worked in a restaurant as a waiter because I was ‘ too old ’ to train as a chef . |
11 | I grew up wanting not so much money as glamour , and when I left school at 15 I went to work in the department store , Bourne & Hollingsworth . |
12 | I left school at 15 under a Labour Government . |