Example sentences of "was apprentice to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his horizons were quickly widened to include the nearby town of Dorchester where he attended day school , and where at the age of 16 he was apprenticed to a local architect , despite his academic interests . |
| 2 | He was born at Preston in 1732 and got little education ; he was apprenticed to a barber , and set himself up in the barbering trade at Bolton later . |
| 3 | Leaving school at the age of 14 to study medicine , he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Worcester . |
| 4 | He was apprenticed to Professor Coleman in 1796 when aged 15 , and received his certificate from the College on 30 March 1799 ( for some unknown reason , this certificate disappeared for good that very same evening ) . |
| 5 | Where he was educated is not known but he was apprenticed to John Marshall , a surgeon from Kilsyth , who was in charge of Glasgow University 's Physick garden in 1704 ( a physick garden was a source of herbs and other plants used for medical purposes ) . |
| 6 | When 14 he was apprenticed to the Edinburgh firm of Norie , who were house painters — hardly an ideal apprenticeship for what he wanted to be . |
| 7 | After two years , he was judged to have learnt sufficient skills , and was apprenticed to a Plymouth shoe maker who treated him so harshly and badly that he was re-admitted to the workhouse where he stayed until he was 19 years old . |
| 8 | On 20th April 1874 , a deaf man with no speech was apprenticed to Solomon Lodge as a Freemason . |
| 9 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 10 | After his education , he was apprenticed to his father 's coach-building premises , graduating after three years to an office position which he retained until his father retired in 1890 . |
| 11 | Murdoch Macleod was born in Edinburgh and educated at Donaldson 's Hospital after which he was apprenticed to an Edinburgh tailoring firm , but this existence did not meet with his taste for adventure , so at the age of 19 he embarked on a steamer from Southampton to South Africa in 1892 . |
| 12 | George Hurst , the son of a curate , was born in 1800 and was apprenticed to a silk mercer at the age of 13 , at the end of which time he applied himself to an energetic programme of self-improvement and became a schoolteacher . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The details of his early life are not known , but by 1450 he was apprenticed to Robert Botiller , a goldsmith in London , and by 1458 had become a lowys ( the term used in the records of the Goldsmiths ' Company to describe someone allowed to practise the craft ) . |
| 15 | He had left school now , and was apprenticed to Mr Knollys . |
| 16 | He was apprenticed to a jeweller and hoped to become a watchmaker . |
| 17 | Before a youth was apprenticed to the Sechem he was committed to a number of years of study of the Yasa , memorising the codex in its entirety so that he was capable of relating his knowledge of the law to science . |
| 18 | From 1795 to 1800 he was apprenticed to his uncle Samuel [ q.v. ] , during which time in 1797 he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy , and in the beginnings of his career he was indebted in different ways to both Samuel and his other architect uncle , James [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | He was apprenticed to John Lowder , then architect to the city , and supplemented this training by visits to France c .1818 and later , in 1829 , to Italy . |
| 20 | Around 1906 he was apprenticed to the German immigrant lithographer , Paul Fischer , in Islington . |
| 21 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 22 | Glover was apprenticed to a plumber at thirteen and followed that trade for fourteen years , during which he acquired a taste for study and an interest in science . |
| 23 | After school he was apprenticed to a wood engraver . |
| 24 | At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to John Powning , architect and builder , of Exeter . |
| 25 | As an adolescent he was apprenticed to Roger Vivian , an assistant of the Levant Company , and during the 1640s served as a factor to him in Smyrna . |
| 26 | It was a tribute to Stephenson 's opinion of him that his son Robert [ q.v. ] was apprenticed to Wood from 1819 to 1821 at Killingworth . |
| 27 | He was apprenticed to William Pickering , a surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary , in 1763 . |
| 28 | Little is known about his family , and his date of birth can be inferred only from the fact that he was apprenticed to a mercer in 1528 . |
| 29 | In 1816 he was apprenticed to John Cudworth , a Quaker , of the firm Broadhead & Cudworth , Leeds , to learn the retail tea trade . |
| 30 | He was apprenticed to a watchmaker , and as a boy was a keen amateur conjuror , giving a public performance of his own tricks at the age of sixteen . |