Example sentences of "was born [prep] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matthew was born with water on the brain . |
| 2 | William George Smith was born at Southampton on Nov 4 1923 , son of a Merchant Navy engineer who had accompanied Shackleton on his journey to the Antarctic . |
| 3 | Antonis Tritsis was born at Agostoli on the island of Cephalonia in 1937 . |
| 4 | Geoffrey Reginald Giles was born at Coventry on Dec 17 1936 and educated at Bablake School , Coventry , and Manchester University , where he qualified as a doctor in 1960 . |
| 5 | Robert Burns , regarded as one of the world 's greatest and best-loved poets , was born at Alloway on 25 January 1759 . |
| 6 | Zulfiqar Ali Khan was born at Rampur on March 11 , 1933 , the second son of Maj-General Sir Syed Mohammad Raza Ali Khan , the ruler of Rampur , renowned for his sexual prowess . |
| 7 | Willem Van Leer was born in Amsterdam on May 29 1913 and left home at 18 — ‘ a remittance man , ’ as he put it , ‘ without a remittance ’ . |
| 8 | Lady Hoy was born in Edinburgh on 16 April , 1908 , the daughter of John McArthur , one of the founding members of the Labour movement in Central Edinburgh . |
| 9 | John Anthony Pople was born in Burnham on Sea in 1925 , the elder son of Herbert and Mary Pople . |
| 10 | Philip Edward Thomas was born in London on 3 March 1878 at 10 Upper Lansdowne Road North , now 14 Lansdowne Gardens , just off South Lambeth Road , where his parents occupied rooms let by a Mrs Legge . |
| 11 | Roger Edward Wentworth Manley was born in London on June 29 1930 and educated at King 's College School , Wimbledon , and London University . |
| 12 | Gerald Francis Sowerby was born in London on Nov 5 1905 . |
| 13 | John William Lowe was born in London on 24th September 1804 to a solicitor , William Lowe . |
| 14 | Henry ( Harry ) Tremayne Markham , who was expected around November 1st , was born in London on October 11th . |
| 15 | John Piper was born in Maybole on 20th April , 1773 , a son of the local physician , Doctor Hugh Piper . |
| 16 | Soane was born in Goring on Thames , where his father was a bricklayer and he began his career as an errand-boy . |
| 17 | Edmund McCarten was born in Millom on 30th March , 1912 and he went to school in Millom until the age of 14 when he transferred to the seminary at Ushaw and there studied for the priesthood . |
| 18 | San Carlo Borromeo was born in Arona on the western shore , but southern tip , of Lake Maggiore , in 1522 . |
| 19 | He was born in Whitechapel on September 24 , 1934 . |
| 20 | The world 's first test-tube baby , Louise Brown , was born in England on July 24 , 1978 , and since then scores of other children around the world have been conceived in the laboratory test tube . |
| 21 | Harry Farnham Germain Letson was born in Vancouver on Sept 26 1896 , when it was still a shantytown . |
| 22 | Several other composers also set Mackay lyrics , including Eugen d'Albert , who was born in Glasgow on 10 April 1864 . |
| 23 | Philip , their first surviving child was born in Brackley on 18 March 1693 . |
| 24 | Shteingel was born in Perm on the western edge of Siberia , was raised in Kamchatka and served between 1802 and 1810 in Okhotsk and Irkutsk ; D.I . |
| 25 | FREDERICK MATHIAS ALEXANDER , the progenitor of the Alexander Technique , was born in Australia on 20 January 1869 . |
| 26 | Samuel Whitbread was born in Cardington on August 20th 1720 , and at the age of 16 was apprenticed to a London brewer , John Wightman , later starting his own brewery in Chiswell Street . |
| 27 | He was born in Barbados on 1 August 1924 into a middle-class family , at a time when class boundaries on the island , having been modelled on the English system , were very rigid . |
| 28 | Simpson was born in Leith on the outskirts of Edinburgh in 1906 and became prominent with St Bernards in the 2nd Division of the Scottish League . |
| 29 | Son of a Scots father , the marine insurance broker John Farquhar Mackay , and a German mother , Louise Auguste Mackay née Ehlers , John Henry Mackay was born in Greenock on 8 February 1864 and so was only nineteen months old when his father died there on 11 September 1865 . |
| 30 | The formation of the BDDA was the idea of Francis Maginn , an Irishman , who was born near Cork on 21 April 1861 . |