"proper" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It is a proper school, not just a training ground for debutantes.
- "What will it cost, do you think, to set up a proper boarding school for, say, thirty or forty girls?"
- Jacobs' daughter taught in homes until opportunities aroused for a proper school.
- That's how it was, I never went to school proper.
- At this stage we didn't have a proper school to work in, so most of his education took place out hacking.
- He goes to a proper prep school, but is something of an alien.
- He is also credited with having a proper school organized.
- He spent a relatively long time managing accommodation and finding a proper school to attend.
- I was eight when I went to proper boarding school for the first time.
- It was being the champion speller of the whole town even though for some reason they wouldn't let him into the school proper.
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