Example sentences of "go up to oxford " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was decided that before going up to Oxford , which in fact he never did , he should spend time with a German family in Mecklenburg and three months studying at the university in Jena , where he attended lectures on philosophy and political economy and made many close friends among German Jews . |
| 2 | Before going up to Oxford I spent three months of the summer of 1929 in France to improve my French . |
| 3 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 4 | When I was eighteen I went up to Oxford . |
| 5 | Robertson Nicoll 's daughters married army officers while his son became a physician ; J. H. Paton 's son became High Master of Manchester Grammar School ; Silvester Horne 's eldest daughter went up to Oxford while one son became a barrister and the other , Kenneth , the star of BBC Radio 's ‘ Round the Horne ’ series , programmes which did not always accord with the Nonconformist Conscience . |
| 6 | Later he went up to Oxford , taking his degree with first class honours in History . |
| 7 | ‘ When you started prattling about that man I sometimes saw here before I ever went up to Oxford , ’ she said . |
| 8 | He was quick to point out that when they went up to Oxford — as most of my pupils would he likely to do — the impact of Marx , the one reputation which most politically-conscious dons revered , was likely to sweep them off their feet . |
| 9 | Scott , a Stockton district councillor who went up to Oxford University at the same time as Margaret Thatcher , was third in 1987 in a tight three cornered fight . |
| 10 | Dermot joined me at Magdalen for my fourth year at Oxford ; Roddy did not go up to Oxford until the year after I had left . |
| 11 | Go up to Oxford ? — Yes ! |
| 12 | Leapor also satirizes the intellectual pretensions of a figure in Crumble Hall who can tentatively be identified as the young William Henry Chauncy who had recently gone up to Oxford : |