Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at oxford " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was at Oxford after the last war . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a sort of joke when I was at Oxford . |
| 3 | ‘ I used to hear your father preach when I was at Oxford . |
| 4 | If you 're at Oxford it 's unlikely you went to Jo Ro , Arche 's perhaps ? |
| 5 | If you 're at Oxford it 's unlikely you went to Jo Ro , Arche 's perhaps ? |
| 6 | ‘ You were at Oxford , Willoughby . |
| 7 | We were at Oxford together , Robert and I , and have often talked the night away in former times , mingling literature and politics and cheap red wine with the cigarette smoke and the laughter and the brittle pile of old Al Bowlly records he had stumbled upon in a junk-shop kept by a one-time Polish airman . |
| 8 | Mr Brandreth tells me : ‘ I discovered that we were at Oxford when an American reporter rang me some months ago to ask about him . |
| 9 | Despite criticisms that they 're only there as star imports for the match , the ‘ foreigners ’ insist they are at Oxford for genuine academic reasons ; the rugby is a bonus . |
| 10 | Penrose was then at Birkbeck College , London ; now he is at Oxford . |
| 11 | It was at Oxford , he said later , that he met an older woman who ‘ sorted him out about all that . |
| 12 | It was at Oxford that he met Tim Rice , and the idea ofa songwriting partnership began to germinate in his mind . |
| 13 | However , thanks to the efforts of Lord Dainton , and his rapport with Mrs Thatcher , whose tutor he was at Oxford , we are to get the New Library that in Bentley 's day could not be thought of , though the Victorians created an ideal solution for their day . |
| 14 | CHESHIRE housewife Tamara Kennerley , a girlfriend of Clinton when he was at Oxford , was among the first to offer her congratulations . |
| 15 | He intended to join the Indian Civil Service , but while he was at Oxford his father and his only brother died , and he inherited the family estate , which provided him with an income for the rest of his life . |
| 16 | He was at Oxford University in the late 1960s and established a love of our country which he still cherishes . |
| 17 | Well I said to Diane you know , I did n't laugh , I did n't think it was funny , I thought it was sad and I said but he needs help , if Vaughan 's you know , he 's got two sons , but Mark 's a bit hopeless and he was at Oxford anyway , I said surely somebody should go and get him some some treatment , sanitation . |