Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Airtours document asks why a £6.5 million contingent liability was not disclosed at the time Owners unveiled its preliminary results , and draws attention to its rival 's low distributable reserves as a possible reason . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was an heirloom from the time of King Alexander 1 ‘ Philhellene ’ as he was later called ; it was a prize won at the Argive Games to Hera ( SEG xxix 652 , cp. xi 330 = xxx 52 ) . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | His pockets bulged with the prizes he had won at the plastic ducks : a packet of fruit gums , a monkey on a stick that broke the first time he made it jump and three engagement rings with glass stones in them . |
| 6 | He was educated at a boarding school in Darlington and his family moved many times due to his father 's job in the Royal Air Force . |
| 7 | He was educated at a boarding school in Littlehampton , but had to leave abruptly at the age of sixteen for financial reasons when his father died suddenly of pneumonia . |
| 8 | Educated at a missionary school and in Japan , Huan Xiang left the Kuomintang to join the CCP in 1947 . |
| 9 | Educated at a state school in Hampstead , he went on to study at Oxford University . |
| 10 | Born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father , she had been educated at a convent school in North London . |
| 11 | She was brought up in County Dublin and educated at a convent school and at Dublin 's University College . |
| 12 | Upon the latter 's death , he was educated at a hearing school in Clapham and thence at the Marlborough School of Art . |
| 13 | When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He was educated at the village school and at Glasgow University . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was educated at the village school , learning to read and write , but otherwise he was self-taught . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was educated at the village school in Fridaythorpe . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He was educated at the Perse School and at Christ 's College , Cambridge ( senior scholar ) . |
| 26 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School , and studied medicine for one year at St Francis Xavier College , Bruges . |
| 27 | He was educated at the North London Collegiate School . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Spence was educated at the parish school in Brechin , but began his working life very early , apprenticed to a grocer , an uncle , in Perth . |
| 30 | 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 . |