Example sentences of "was [verb] at the local " in BNC.
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| 1 | Young Archie was educated at the local National school until he was 14 and then apprenticed to Stephens & Sons , pioneers of the Stephens motor-car . |
| 2 | He was educated at the local parish school , the Miller Institution , later Thurso Academy , but little is known of his academic record . |
| 3 | Merrick was educated at the local board school in Syston Street , Leicester . |
| 4 | He was educated at the local grammar school and then Caius College , Cambridge , where he took his BA degree in 1665 , before embarking on a grand tour . |
| 5 | He was educated at the local church school then , at the age of twelve , went to work for a builders ' business in Lancaster . |
| 6 | It was always the same when trade was booming at the local wharves , and as the convoys of horsecarts and lorries lined up along Cotton Lane so the cafe became even fuller . |
| 7 | The first piece , however , was made at the local Syrian mint , at Antioch . |
| 8 | The truth is that the health authorities and the social services department engaged in different types of service development , in different contexts , with different resources and with different outcomes — even though a surprisingly uniform ideal of community care was upheld at the local level throughout the service systems . |
| 9 | Meantime , he was employed at the local grocery store as a delivery boy delivering groceries to the local customers on his bike . |
| 10 | A successful prosecution was concluded at the local magistrate 's court on Monday morning . |
| 11 | It might have continued like this indefinitely if I had n't picked up a copy of the Kensington News , a paper Daphne took so she could find out what was showing at the local picture house . |
| 12 | At the end of 1992 the company installed the first 1,000-number exchange in Ekaterinburg , which was assembled at the local Ural Electromechanical plant . |