Example sentences of "be apprenticed [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | You 're apprenticed to a different tradesman each week , so no ties are formed . |
2 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
3 | He had been apprenticed to a shoemaker in his teens , but had been interrupted by the War . |
4 | My father had been apprenticed to Mr. Cooper and he told me that the trucks had been made when trade was slack . |
5 | Other entrants had been apprenticed to farriers , druggists , and so on , or were following their fathers in practice . |
6 | He had taken far more interest in their efforts than his father had thought was right and proper for a boy and when Leonie , his eldest sister , had been apprenticed to a dressmaker his fascination had grown . |
7 | John Leacock had been educated at Christ 's Hospital in London and been apprenticed to a firm of British merchants in the island , Catanach & Murdoch . |
8 | She had never heard that Father had been apprenticed to another business in the town of Ballylee . |
9 | Ten years later , on a visit to Burnley and practising the skills of the oral historian , I talked to my grandmother , and she , puzzled , told me that Edna had never worked in any office , had in fact been apprenticed to a dry cleaning firm that did tailoring and mending . |
10 | He had been apprenticed to the kitchens at the Ritz and had simultaneously developed a theatrical bent , performing as a dancer at the Players ' Theatre . |
11 | One Saturday evening , when I had been apprenticed to Joe for four years , he and I were sitting in the pub , with some of the villagers , listening to Mr Wopsle . |
12 | Encouraged by his studies of A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads , by Nicholas Wood [ q.v. ] , he quickly realized the great potential future of steam locomotive traction and in 1837 he joined Charles Todd , who had been apprenticed to James Fenton of the locomotive builders Fenton , Murray & Jackson , and David Laird , a farmer and financier , in establishing Todd , Kitson & Laird at the Railway foundry in Leeds , manufacturers of machinery and locomotives . |
13 | A late nineteenth-century Hepplewhite revival led to an 1897 reprint of the Guide by Batsford , and a modest myth grew up around George Hepplewhite , who was stated to have been apprenticed to Gillows of Lancaster and London ; in 1801 , however , they wrote ‘ We have not Hebbelthwaite 's Publication . ’ |
14 | He left his Kensington house to his wife , formerly Mary Everton , whom he had married about 1706 , and a legacy to their son William , who had been apprenticed to Philip Miller in 1722 . |
15 | This included Phil Morris , who had been apprenticed to a graphics printer for four years when he joined the company and who was immediately sent by Bernard on a further course in fabric processing . |
16 | It may well be that he took the place of Thomas Hitchcock who had been apprenticed to the same master nine years previously . |
17 | In London , where he had been apprenticed as a young man , the poky City offices had been suffocating . |
18 | And he 'd been apprenticed in Liverpool with a firm called they were ship repairers in Liverpool . |
19 | This project is based on three premises : that more young economists , bound for industry , particularly consultancy , the civil service and the city , should have at least been apprenticed in research--hence , in part , the use of occasional research assistants rather than experienced professionals ; that applied economists should pay more attention to the views of non economists , and , in particular of practitioners in the fields they study , hence the emphasis on the flexibility required if we are to look at problems differently , or use different types of evidence ; and that more of us should build our models self consciously , with an eye to analytical convenience and ease of interpretation , considerations which would be less important were economics less inexact , since it might then make sense to seek the correct model , however difficult to analyse and understand . |
20 | Architecture students from the Université des Beaux-Arts in Phnom Penh are apprenticed to the Japanese and wmf teams , and the Thai government is prepared to expand its small workshop if funds can be found to do so . |
21 | He could be apprenticed to his mother 's brother , surely . |
22 | At this time , one of the ways of learning the skills of a medical practitioner was to be apprenticed to a physician or surgeon . |
23 | So although I had expected a life of some leisure , I found myself lucky to be apprenticed to a carpenter in Kendal . |
24 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
25 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
26 | In 1675 , by which time his father had died , he was admitted to Christ 's Hospital from St Giles , Cripplegate ; he left the school in 1681 to be apprenticed to the writing-master , William Brooks , in the City of London . |
27 | Traditionally , doctors were trained by being apprenticed to established physicians . |
28 | He was educated at Babbacombe School , Torquay , which he left at fourteen to join the office of George Bridgeman , an architect in Torquay , to whom he returned after being apprenticed to a quantity surveyor in London . |
29 | He attended Liverpool College before being apprenticed to the well-known Manchester engineering firm of Joseph Whitworth & Company . |
30 | Their son became a London salter , being apprenticed to Peter Robinson , and marrying his daughter Joan . |