Sentence examples similar to improving schoolboy from inspiring English sources
Within its gleaming marble walls, across Woodward Avenue from the city's equally gleaming main library, I learned, in self-improving schoolboy fashion, that there were great painters with names like Claude Monet and Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro.
Agar, a native of Featherstone who has been steeped in the game since drinking cherryade from the Challenge Cup as a lad – his father, Allan, coached Rovers to their famous Wembley win against Hull in 1983 – has been determined to improve on his schoolboy French for a while, and hopes to be reasonably fluent by October.
A new tone, and no tolerance of schoolboy behaviour, would do much to improve parliament's reputation.
The attack came despite orders given to all education institutions to improve security following the massacre of more than 130 schoolboys at Peshawar's army public school in 2014.
He worked diligently to improve his command of the language, and he reported with schoolboy pride to his diary how he was coming along, and scolded himself when his conversation sputtered.
Ponsford improved rapidly and by 1913 he was included in the Victorian schoolboys side for a tournament in Adelaide.
The pair had a plan of bringing through talented schoolboys and selling one or two off every so often to improve the club's bleak financial picture, whilst at the same time advancing through the leagues; in his autobiography he said that what Dario Gradi later achieved at Crewe Alexandra is what he had in mind for the Vale.
15 This was introduced as part of an intervention to improve safety in the game ('Are you ready to play rugby') and had been recommended by a subgroup of the Scottish Committee for Orthopaedics and Trauma in response to the increasing number of serious neck injuries observed in schoolboy rugby in Scotland.
It was a schoolboy prank, retaliating for another schoolboy prank.
