Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] college " in BNC.

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1 I saw this ad on the back of a matchbox which promised to show me the way to achieve success without having to go through college .
2 The money raised will pay for two outdoor residential courses , organised for college students and Fairbridge .
3 Nowadays , there are so many people applying for college research fellowships that if one of the candidate 's referees says that he does not know him , that is the end of his chances .
4 Then there 's usually a student ( or undergraduate ) registry that looks after college admissions , examinations , records , timetables and so on .
5 Mr White , meanwhile , is chronicling the doctor 's undergraduate days at Oxford and , in tabloid-Press prose , writes of college balls where ‘ the female companion of an Old Harrovian or Etonian would in all probability be the daughter of a baron or duke , wrapped in the best silk ’ , while on the river ‘ the navigators of punts … and those on the grassy banks lifting a glass of champagne to their lips ’ strike Mr White as ‘ an earthly paradise in freeze-frame ’ .
6 But do n't expect your fellow students to constitute a representative cross-section of the community at large — if only because they contain an above-average proportion of younger people and others who are most able to sustain continuous study and to benefit from college education .
7 Most fellows would have dined in college on most nights , whether they were married or not ; and the huge majority were still bachelors for whom the celibate life was the norm .
8 NEW regulations forced on the Government will give tens of thousands of European students who could not afford to come to college in Britain the right to apply for discretionary grants to finance their studies .
9 The bursar The bursar is another full-time administrator , responsible for all matters relating to college funding and the control of college financial expenditures .
10 It 's not unusual nowadays to see ex-bricklayers returning to college after 10 years hard labour to study for computing degrees or for ex-secretaries to take a completely different direction and to join a furniture restoration course .
11 He could think of two of his fellow students who might be suitable but they too had degree courses to finish and Adam was beginning to think very seriously of not returning to college .
12 It is a sandwich course where the third year students spend time in industry gaining practical experience before returning to college for their final year .
13 Students tend to leave towards the end of the season in order to take a vacation before returning to college ; but it is not only amongst this group that turnover levels are high .
14 On returning to college this will assist them and their fellow course team members to finalise their own Stage 2 submission(s) prior to forwarding these to SCOTVEC by 28 February 1989 .
15 In America the game is confined to college sides and professionals .
16 One side of School Yard was dominated by College Chapel .
17 Nearer to Christmas time they are supplemented by college and older school students , some of whom already work in the store on late night shopping evenings or at the weekend .
18 By rights , as Dorothy Hardisty pointed out , these young people should have been destined for college or university .
19 We believe that young people should be free to choose between college , work-based training and sixth form studies .
20 He went to Cambridge , being incorporated BA on 9 February 1560 , and on 12 January 1561 he was appointed fellow of Magdalene College by royal mandate , serving as college treasurer from 1564 to 1566 .
21 Sailed through college , picked up academic jargon like a duckling gobbles worms .
22 Yeah , phoned Jeannette the other day to see what she 'd done about college now .
23 They are centred around the ‘ validation event ’ at which a panel representing industry and education meets with college staff .
24 It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted .
25 He would be living in college at first — Emmanuel was his own college — but he would like , he said , to find a place of his own , preferably outside the town .
26 But I think one of the big differences with Oxford is that a very , very high proportion of students are living in college and so they 're behaviour is visible to college .
27 When I look back at what I learnt in college I 'm disappointed to think that they did n't teach me more .
28 Of Purpose In I walk to college every day in order to save money the clause in order to save money qualifies walk .
29 It er does n't have to be a problem related to college , any problem you 've got er come and see me , it 's as well to take advantage of it cos those of you who have been involved in legal wranglings before will it 's quite an expensive business , so
30 Erm if you passed , erm you did a stint and then you came to College , Nottingham for your teaching ticket .
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