Example sentences of "[was/were] educated at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their sons were educated at the school at one fifth of the fees normally charged , under a concessionary scheme . |
| 2 | In the relevant tax years , 1983–84 , 1984–85 and 1985–86 , children of one or more of the taxpayers were educated at the school on payment of the concessionary fees only . |
| 3 | He was educated at the King 's School , Rochester . |
| 4 | He was educated at the King 's School as a chorister of Gloucester Cathedral , then as an articled pupil of the cathedral organist , ( Sir ) A. Herbert Brewer [ q.v. ] , and finally , on winning a composition scholarship ( 1911 ) , at the Royal College of Music under Sir Charles Stanford [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | She was educated at the Art School in Gower Street and then at Mrs Hill 's School , where she met Octavia Hill , John Ruskin , Charles Kingsley , and F. D. Maurice [ qq.v . ] . |
| 6 | William 's second and eponymous son was educated at the School before transferring to Westminster and thence to Cambridge and a career in politics as leader of the Jacobite squires in the House of Commons ; his younger brother , Robert , went directly from School to Merton College , Oxford , and there pursued an academic career , becoming Vice Chancellor of that University . |
| 7 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School , and studied medicine for one year at St Francis Xavier College , Bruges . |
| 8 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School . |
| 9 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School until , aged about fourteen , he had a cross tattooed on his breast in token of a momentous religious experience , and became a teacher . |
| 10 | He was educated at the Perse School , Cambridge , and won a scholarship to Pembroke College , Cambridge , where he received a first class in part i of the English tripos in 1928 and a first class with distinction in part ii in 1929 . |
| 11 | He was educated at the Perse School and at Christ 's College , Cambridge ( senior scholar ) . |
| 12 | He was educated at the village school and at Glasgow University . |
| 13 | He was educated at the village school , learning to read and write , but otherwise he was self-taught . |
| 14 | Cooke was educated at the village dame school until he was ten , and then to the age of thirteen by his uncle , James Cubitt , a Baptist minister in Ilford , who shortly afterwards moved to Stratford upon Avon . |
| 15 | He was educated at the village school in Buckland , and from 1862 at Culham Teacher Training College , near Oxford , gaining a first-class certificate there in 1864 . |
| 16 | He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe . |
| 17 | He was educated at the University of Leiden between 1747 and 1749 , and then entered the family 's banking business . |
| 18 | He was educated at the Oratory School , Birmingham ( 1878–84 ) and read history at Trinity College , Oxford ( 1884–8 ) , gaining a second class in modern history in 1888 . |
| 19 | A surgeon 's son , he was educated at the Dragon School , Oxford , St Paul 's School , London , Jesus College , Cambridge , and St Thomas 's Hospital , where he qualified in 1946 . |
| 20 | The family was posted to Sussex in 1847 and Dresser was educated at the Government School of Design at Somerset House in London from 1847 to 1854 . |
| 21 | Spence was educated at the parish school in Brechin , but began his working life very early , apprenticed to a grocer , an uncle , in Perth . |
| 22 | He was educated at the Wesleyan Higher Grade School , Gillingham , and at Chatham Dockyard School . |
| 23 | He was educated at the Collège de Genève and entered the University of Aberdeen in 1874 , where he graduated MB in 1878 and MD in 1881 . |
| 24 | He was educated at the grammar schools of Lostwithiel and Plymouth , and tutored by the Revd Thomas Byrth [ q.v. ] of Diptford , before matriculating at Oxford in 1824 . |
| 25 | He was educated at the City of London School , leaving at the age of sixteen as head boy . |
| 26 | He was educated at The City of London School and did his National Service in the RAF , mainly overseas in Burma . |
| 27 | He was educated at the Palace School , Enfield , before unenthusiastically joining the family firm . |
| 28 | He was educated at the Borough Jewish School in the East End of London . |