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Example sentences for "private school"

  • The elder brother of Thomas Ellwood, Milton's amanuensis, also learnt French and Latin at a private school at Hadley, near Barnet in Hertfordshire, before going with Thomas to learn Latin and some Greek at the free school of Thame.

  • At twelve years of age this remarkable boy was sent to a private school at Little Shelford, and at eighteen he eqgered Trinity College, Cambridge.

  • It is a private school, and, if your daughter prefers, she can be taught separately from the other pupils.

  • After completing his studies at Chester Academy he attended a private school at Bloomfield, N.

  • Augustus was educated at home by tutors in a private school.

  • In 1891, after more than a hundred years of existence as a private school, it became the academic department of the Montgomery public schools.

  • He was educated at a private school in Highbury, and when only a small boy of twelve was taken by his parents to Italy, where the family lived for three years.

  • He was educated at a private school, and after some years spent as mathematical master at Queen Elizabeth's College, Guernsey, he went to London, where he devoted himself to journalism in the Conservative interest.

  • After attending a private school in Marylebone, he was sent to Westminster School, which he left in due course for Christ Church, Oxford.

  • The institution had its beginning in 1836 in a private school.

  • She has been at a private school, too, and is coming back to us now--a sophomore like the rest of us.

  • I did, and I hadn't been to private school all my life, either.

  • She was sick some and it was better for her to go to private school.

  • Oh, she was out last year, at a private school, but she is coming back.

  • Dartmouth College is a private school, though its pupils come from all the land or all the world; while the Boston Latin School is a public school; though it receives those pupils only whose homes are within the limits of the city.

  • At Chinchuba there is a private school, the Chinchuba Deaf-Mute Institute, under the Sisters of Notre Dame, opened in 1890.

  • There is a private school at North Detroit, the Evangelical Lutheran Deaf-Mute Institute, opened in 1873.

  • Finally, he went to study at a private school kept by Mr. Sterling in Hertfordshire.

  • He failed in an attempt to set up a private school, and became prompter in a Dublin theatre.

  • After spending some years at a private school at Knutsford, he was sent to a school at Newcastle-on-Tyne, whence after four years he was transferred to Dr J.

  • Were I a private school-master, I should say, Let who will hear the boys their lessons, but let me live with them when they are at play and rest.

  • So we must hurry through Master Tom's year at a private school as fast as we can.

  • Previous to that time the education of the children of the better class was almost wholly in the hands of private school teachers.

  • I made an effort on my own responsibility, and at my own expense to improve teachers, by opening a private school, solely for their benefit, but as I did not meet with proper encouragement I was obliged to relinquish my purpose.

  • Upon his dismissal from this position he united with Hermann Krüsi in founding a private school.

  • After spending some time as teacher in a private school, he returned to Leipsic as Privat Docent[117] in the university.

  • He began to teach in a private school at the age of twenty-two.

  • I saw it once, when he came to stay at my private school.

  • He expatiated on this new-found freedom, this intoxicating licence to roam where one would within bounds of time alone, a peculiar boon to the boy from a private school, and one that Jan appreciated as highly as his companion.

  • Jan had not only no reputation, but no private school where he could say that he had played the game.

  • The elder is a teacher from a private school; the other is Stanley Hargreave's daughter.

  • Some one had mistaken her select private school for a farmhouse.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    break them; foreign commodities; little ashamed; never took; only wished; private audience; private banks; private charity; private detective; private enterprise; private inquiry; private land; private libraries; private office; private opinion; private papers; private rights; private secretary; private sitting; private study; private trade; private view; private wealth; privately printed; take effect; turning them