Example sentences of "he [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] the royal " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and later released . |
| 2 | To this day he thinks that he was accepted into the Royal College chiefly because Minton felt strong sympathy with the macabre apparition he presented . |
| 3 | Alexander had to argue with the authorities before they would let him compete , but he convinced them that he was descended from the royal house of Argos . |
| 4 | He was rushed to the Royal Victoria Hospital where emergency surgery was carried out . |
| 5 | After the disruption of the Cabal , he was honoured by the Royal Society with a fellowship ( 1673 ) and by admission to Gray 's Inn ( 1674 ) ; to him was ascribed the chief credit for the failure to carry the impeachment of Thomas Osborne , first Earl of Danby [ q.v. ] , whose policies at the head of the new administration in 1674 , both at home and abroad , harmonized with his own . |
| 6 | He was educated at the Royal Grammar School , Lancaster . |
| 7 | He was educated at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester ( 1883–5 ) , graduating with honours in drawing and science . |
| 8 | He was educated at the Royal School , Armagh , and graduated from the Royal University of Ireland in 1884 and from Trinity College , Dublin , in 1885 . |
| 9 | He was educated at the Royal Academical Institution , Belfast . |
| 10 | He was educated at the Royal Liberty School , Romford , and , after a brief sojourn in banking , at Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he won cricket blues in 1931 , 1932 , and 1933 . |
| 11 | He was educated at the Royal Belfast Institution and then at Queen 's University , Belfast , studying science in his first year then switching to philosophy . |
| 12 | He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh , after which he spent two years learning commerce with a London agency house . |
| 13 | He was educated at the Royal Commercial Travellers ' School , Pinner , Middlesex , and then , as a foundation scholar , at King Edward 's School , Birmingham ( 1896–8 ) . |
| 14 | Born in February 1924 , he was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and the University of London , where he studied law . |
| 15 | The son of a post office worker in Edinburgh , he was educated at the Royal High School and at Edinburgh and London Universities . |
| 16 | He went from Rugby to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , whence he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 28 July 1915 . |
| 17 | A subaltern 's commission in the Hampshire Yeomanry in 1897–8 gave him a liking for army life , and in January 1899 he was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers . |
| 18 | When he went down from Oxford he was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers , his godfather 's regiment , and took the name of Doughty-Wylie . |
| 19 | In 1902 , with ( Sir ) John S. Flett [ q.v. ] of the Geological Survey , he was commissioned by the Royal Society to investigate the catastrophic eruptions on the islands of Martinique and St Vincent ( Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society , 1903 and 1908 ) . |
| 20 | He was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery towards the end of World War I. He obtained a third class in literae humaniores at Oxford in 1921 but a pass with distinction in the LLB at Edinburgh in 1924 . |
| 21 | He was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in August 1900 . |
| 22 | In 1880 he was seconded to the Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew , as its first cryptogamic botanist , and redoubled his mycological studies , publishing , among much else , his monumental eight-volume Illustrations of British Fungi ( 1881–91 ) . |
| 23 | As the season of goodwill got into full swing he was discharged from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport yesterday . |