At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

At first it had been just a romantic dream of his, the same as the idea of finishing Oxford after the war.

At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.

At this point Italian financier Benedict Spinola had loaned Oxford over £ 4, 000 for his 15 month long continental tour, while in England over 100 tradesmen were seeking settlement of debts totalling thousands of pounds.

* At Oxford University, the Oxford Libertarian Society was previously known as the Hayek Society.

At Oxford the vice-chancellor, following papal directions, confined the Reformer for some time in Black Hall, from which Wycliffe was released on threats from his friends ; the vice-chancellor was himself confined in the same place because of his treatment of Wycliffe.

At Oxford Circus the tunnel runs close to the Bakerloo line tunnel of the London Underground.

At first, the dictionary was unconnected to Oxford University but was the idea of a small group of intellectuals in London ; it originally was a Philological Society project conceived in London by Richard Chenevix Trench, Herbert Coleridge, and Frederick Furnivall, who were dissatisfied with the current English dictionaries.

* At 12, Oxford was made a royal ward and placed in the household of Lord Burghley, who was the Lord High Treasurer and Queen Elizabeth I's closest and most trusted advisor.

At the University of Oxford bumping races were first organised in 1815 when Brasenose College and Jesus College boat clubs had the first annual race while at Cambridge the first recorded races were in 1827.

for being " the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld ; a person also of innate modesty, virtue and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex " At the age of eighteen, during a three-week celebration at Oxford, he was granted the degree of Master of Arts.

At Magdalen College, Oxford is one which is perforated.

At the time the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published, " tablespoon " ( which by then was no longer hyphenated ) still had two definitions in the UK: the original definition ( eating spoon ) and the new definition ( serving spoon ).

At Oxford he matriculated at Christ Church, where his studies were largely focused on natural history rather than the classical curriculum.

At Oxford and Cambridge business schools an MPhil, or Master of Philosophy, is awarded in place of an MA or MSc.

At Braunston Junction, the Oxford Canal diverges north and south.

At 19 he won an entrance scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1908.

At one point non-governmental composition at Oxford was reduced to 32 pages a week.

At Oxford he met Robert Graves, also an Old Carthusian, and they co-edited a poetry publication, Oxford Poetry, in 1921.

At Folly Bridge in Oxford the remains of an original Saxon structure can be seen, and medieval stone bridges such as Newbridge and Abingdon Bridge are still in use.

* At colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Hall is the dining hall for students, with High Table at one end for fellows.

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1961.

At St Bartholomew's, Yealhampton in the same year, Butterfield used a considerable amount of marquetry work for the interior, and built striped piers, using two colours of marble.

At the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965, Bob Dylan was backed by members of Butterfield's band ( Bloomfield, Arnold, and Lay, but not Butterfield himself ) when he went electric, a move considered controversial at the time by much of the folk music establishment.

At the western end, Denver to San Francisco, the stage company was taken over by Wells Fargo due to large debts that Butterfield owed.

At the same time British historian Herbert Butterfield described the same situation in his History and Human Relations, but referred to it as the " absolute predicament and irreducible dilemma.

At the Bonhams & Butterfield 2006 auction in New York, a 1937 Crocker " Hemi-head " V-Twin brought $ 276, 500.

At the end of the 2001 – 02 season, Butterfield decided against a new contract and moved to Crystal Palace In his five years at Grimsby Town from 1997 to 2002, Butterfield featured 124 times in the League, scoring 3 times.

At the insistence of his own supervisor -- the president of the firm -- he enrolled in a course designed to develop leaders.

At sea, warships and troop carriers were painted in dazzle patterns that were highly visible, but designed to confuse enemy gunners as to the target's speed, range, and heading.

At first the countries followed mercantilist policies designed to strengthen the home economy at the expense of rivals, so the colonies were usually allowed to trade only with the mother country.

At this stage a small " creeper " crane was installed in each leg, designed to move up the tower as construction progressed and making use of the guides for the elevators which were to be fitted in each leg.

At this time Gdynia was the only transit and special seaport designed for coal exports.

At the center of the courtyard he designed a glass and steel pyramid, first proposed with the Kennedy Library, to serve as entrance and anteroom skylight.

At the top, he designed the roofs at sloping angles to match the rising aesthetic of the building.

At the same time, Pei designed a new museum for Luxembourg, the Musée d ' art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, commonly known as the Mudam.

At Rome he was employed by Pope Nicholas V in the restoration of the papal palace and of the restoration of the Roman aqueduct of Acqua Vergine, which debouched into a simple basin designed by Alberti, which was swept away later by the Baroque Trevi Fountain.

At Mantua he designed the church of Sant ' Andrea, and at Rimini the church of San Francesco.

At the beginning of the series two prototypes of this class, the ' Manus ' heavy weapons and ' Corus ' combat support models, had been designed with the capability to combine with a robotic assistant, named Octus, to form the titular ' Sym-Bionic Titan '.

At the start, the levels were supposed to be designed in an Aztec style, but the choice was dropped some months into the project.

At some period after its arrival in London, the inscriptions on the stone were coloured in white chalk to make them more legible, and the remaining surface was covered with a layer of carnauba wax designed to protect the Rosetta Stone from visitors ' fingers.

At the same time, Moog designed a new version of the Minimoog called the Minimoog Voyager.

At the time he felt that the war was a wrongful one and believed that territorial gains were designed to spread slavery throughout the nation, writing in 1883, " I was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day, regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation.

At the time of the Sheraton Hotel incident, the extant Ministerial Directive permitted ASIS to undertake ' covert action ', including ' special operations ' which, roughly described, comprised ' unorthodox, possibly para-military activity, designed to be used in case of war or some other crisis '.

At the beginning of 2004, Adnams purchased land in neighbouring village of Reydon to expand its business with a new distribution centre, designed by architect Jeremy Blake, which was nominated for the 2007 RICS East of England Award for Sustainability.

At this length the phase delay and the interference of any reflections on the line become important and can lead to unpredictable behavior in systems which have not been carefully designed using transmission line theory.

At some Melbourne intersections, motor vehicles are required to perform a hook turn, a manoeuvre designed to give trams priority.

At the York Parliament of 1322, Edward issued a statute which revoked all previous ordinances designed to limit his power and to prevent any further encroachment upon it.

At first he painted murals and religious works and designed for stained glass windows and printed books.

At the upper levels, riders usually have a saddle specifically designed for cross-country, giving them more freedom for such fences as banks and drops.

At the Chicago World ’ s Fair in 1893, she designed the Rumford Kitchen, which was a tiny kitchen that served nutritious meals to thousands of fair goers, along with a healthy dose of nutrition education.

** At the beginning of Ice Cube's music video for the song, " Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It ", from his 2007 album Raw Footage, a line of text states that " By the year 2020, no child will be left behind " which is followed by an Orwellian classroom setting designed as a segue into the song's sarcastic theme of blame-shifting and anti-gansta rap propaganda during the waning days of the presidency of George W. Bush.

At the outbreak of the First World War, the German Army ( consisting in the West of Seven Field Armies ) executed a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan, designed to quickly attack France through neutral Belgium before turning southwards to encircle the French army on the German border.