Example sentences of "went to oxford " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Brenda Binge of Burnley calling for a ban on acid house parties ‘ I went to Oxford University , but I 've never let it hold me back . ’ |
| 2 | Exactly a week later I suddenly went to Oxford by the most impossible train which stopped at every station . |
| 3 | Many sixth-formers , of course , left a maintained school to go on to universities , but only 10 per cent of these went to Oxford or Cambridge , compared with nearly half of the university-bound sixth-formers from the Public Schools . |
| 4 | Who said in 1988 ‘ I went to Oxford , but I 've never let it hold me back . |
| 5 | She had had a glimpse of the academic sort of ‘ summer school ’ when she went to Oxford to lecture on Ivy to some foreign students . |
| 6 | Who cares whether Walter went to Oxford or Cambridge ? |
| 7 | Palin failed to get in and went to Oxford instead . |
| 8 | Louis MacNeice , who went to Oxford to help , later spoke for : |
| 9 | Thus when I went to Oxford University , my ( markedly northern ) speech soon became noticeably more standard , as a result of contact with so many standard speakers . |
| 10 | He described himself being ‘ scared witless ’ when he went to Oxford , for example . |
| 11 | Upon receiving a degree which would allow me to undertake research , I turned down a place which I had been offered to study theology , and went to Oxford . |
| 12 | He had a younger brother who went to Oxford as well and he did become a Communist . |
| 13 | I went to Oxford in 1961 with my beatnik uniform , sandals and black sweater . |
| 14 | But things seemed to change when I went to Oxford . |
| 15 | In 1894 he went to Oxford University as a non-collegiate student but ill health caused him to leave and he spent the year 1895 acting as tutor to an English family in Odessa . |
| 16 | ‘ Because he 'd been a novice monk himself once , in Ireland , before he went to Oxford . |
| 17 | I went to Oxford on business . |
| 18 | He went to Oxford from secondary school but failed his Bar exams , unlike his father and brother . |
| 19 | Generation ‘ The fact that Clinton went to Oxford for two years makes it even more likely that there will be a very good , firm and friendly special relationship on a personal level , ’ she said . |
| 20 | going to Oxford , if you went to Oxford and you come to such and such a way and you 're going out towards Ipswich and the big roundabout there was |
| 21 | I went , is this this well hard bloke from Brixton , cos Ryan keeps going on about it , like we I said , is he do , I said , oh , we went to Oxford Street today , and he went , is that anywhere near Brixton ? |
| 22 | Now , if we 're going to allow an organisation like that , have we no erm chance to say that after they 've had their collection , we should like to have some indication of what percentage went to Oxford , so that when they apply again , we can at least know whether this is actually a genuine local organisation or national . |