Example sentences of "at [num] he [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 17 he went to Cambridge on a scholarship to study maths in which he got a first-class degree three years later . |
| 2 | At seventy he retired to Hove , but his last years were greatly clouded by illness . |
| 3 | At fourteen he went to a Roman Catholic seminary to study for the priesthood . |
| 4 | At sixteen he went to work for his uncle , a London wine merchant , but by 1810 was established as a confectioner in Marylebone . |
| 5 | At 16 he emigrated to Canada and began work in a small shipyard in Quebec , owned by his uncle , John Black , who had gone there from Irvine a few years earlier . |
| 6 | At 20 he went to the New Musical Express , and edited it through the 1970s , when it became the bestselling rock mag in Britain , with a rich crop of young writers such as Julie Burchill , Tony Parsons , Danny Baker , Paul Morley and Charles Shaar Murray . |