Example sentences of "[num] he was [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1872 he was crowned at Aksum as John IV . |
| 2 | On 26 September 1406 he was consecrated at Mortlake after his promotion to the see of London . |
| 3 | From the age of thirteen he was educated at the Jesuit College of St Omer , France , winning the laurel wreath for French studies . |
| 4 | In 1030 he was killed at the battle of Stiklestad ( near Trondheim ) by his own people , and Cnut then put his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton and their son Swegen in charge there . |
| 5 | Audley 's lands were confiscated in April 1321 and in March 1322 he was captured at Boroughbridge , in Yorkshire , where Lancaster 's forces were conclusively defeated . |
| 6 | At sixteen he was employed at Bligh 's engineering works in Limehouse , and he then joined the Mechanics ' Institute . |
| 7 | Anselm was now ready for the remaining stages of his promotion : in September he did homage to the king and was invested with the lands of the archbishopric ; on 25 September he was enthroned at Canterbury , and on 4 December 1093 he was consecrated at Canterbury . |
| 8 | In 1910 he was one of the prime organizers of the Royal Institute of British Architects ' International Town Planning Congress ( which attracted an astonishing 1,300 delegates ) ; between 1912 and 1914 he was lecturing at the University of Birmingham ; and in 1913 he was playing an active role in establishing a Town Planning Institute . |
| 9 | When Sorley was five his father was appointed Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy at Cambridge University and elected a fellow of King 's College , and from then on Sorley was brought up in Cambridge , where until he was nine he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 10 | From 1829 to 1838 he was educated at the fashionable Collège Bourbon in Paris , and thereafter , on the family 's return to England , he studied law at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 11 | When Robson was appointed England manager in 1982 he was succeeded at Portman Road by Ferguson , whose four years in charge ended with the club 's relegation to the Second Division . |
| 12 | In 1953 he was placed at his own request on the Academy 's retired list . |
| 13 | On 3 July 1201 he was crowned at Cologne . |
| 14 | In 1863 he was matriculated at Balliol College , Oxford , with an exhibition from Highgate . |