Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 2 | Gloucester have never won at the Recreation Ground … the league champions look invincible … but that 's when the Kingsholm men are at their best … when nobody gives them a hope … |
| 3 | More than 120 people have signed up for the six courses and a regular programme of similar events is now likely to be organised at the Wivenhoe Park campus , near Colchester . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ] . |
| 8 | Winnicott was educated at The Leys School , Cambridge , and then at Jesus College , Cambridge , where he gained a third class in part i of the natural sciences tripos in 1917 , as a preliminary to qualifying in medicine . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Harry Ward , a 27-year-old born-deaf man orally educated at the Llandaff School in Cardiff and possessing excellent lipreading skills , managed to follow his three brothers into the Munster Regiment and undergo training at the Curragh Camp in Ireland . |
| 11 | Gower Jones , who was also educated at the Llandaff School , managed to enlist in the Monmouthshire Regiment despite being blind in one eye . |
| 12 | He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy ; Trinity College , Oxford ; and the University of Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Bell was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and entered the University of Edinburgh at the early age of sixteen , graduating MD in 1859 . |
| 14 | Michael was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Mill Hill School in London . |
| 15 | He was educated at the Edinburgh Institution , then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh , where he graduated MD and LRCS in 1847 . |
| 16 | He was educated at the Kingston-upon-Hull grammar school and graduated BA at Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1784 . |
| 17 | He was educated at the village school and at Glasgow University . |
| 18 | Set , like many of her titles , in a fictional Irish village , it tells the stories of eight children who have been educated at the village school and who have carved their names on the beech tree standing by the school house . |
| 19 | He was educated at the village school , learning to read and write , but otherwise he was self-taught . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was educated at the Perse School and at Christ 's College , Cambridge ( senior scholar ) . |
| 25 | Spence was educated at the parish school in Brechin , but began his working life very early , apprenticed to a grocer , an uncle , in Perth . |
| 26 | His father was transferred to Birkenhead in 1898 , and between 1899 and 1907 Owen was educated at the Birkenhead Institute . |
| 27 | William Agnew was born deaf in Glasgow , and at an early age was sent to be educated at the Glasgow Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , where he proved to be a remarkable scholar . |
| 28 | Born near Doncaster , Edward Kirk lost his hearing through a severe illness when aged 2 , and was sent to be educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb where his abilities so impressed the headmaster , the great Charles Baker , that he was kept on first as a classroom assistant , thence from 1871 as a teacher . |
| 29 | He was not the only deaf person connected with the legal profession for Wakefield , Yorkshire , had a fully practising solicitor , Gerald Smith , of the firm Beaumont , Smith and Beaumont , who had been educated at the Yorkshire Institution for the Deaf and Dumb , Doncaster . |
| 30 | He was educated at the Palace School , Enfield , before unenthusiastically joining the family firm . |