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 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 the 1st Academy Awards, Chaplin was given a special award " For versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus.

) She also performed some acrobatics while trying to steal a wallet from Groucho Marx in the Marx Brothers film At the Circus ( 1939 ).

* At the Circus ( 1939 )

At the Circus Maximus, two armies of war captives, each of 2, 000 people, 200 horse and 20 elephants, fought to the death.

At the end of June, a mob demonstrated against Cleander during a horse race in the Circus Maximus: he sent the praetorian guard to put down the disturbances, but Pertinax, who was now City Prefect of Rome, dispatched the Vigiles Urbani to oppose them.

Many see Beyond the Fringe as the forerunner to British television programmes That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show and Monty Python's Flying Circus.

It thus helped prepare the television audience for At Last the 1948 Show, Spike Milligan's Q series, Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Goodies.

Copies of several compilations from the British 1960s comedy At Last The 1948 Show, held by many to be a forerunner of Monty Python's Flying Circus, were discovered in the archives of the Swedish broadcaster SVT, to whom the producers Rediffusion London had sold them upon the companies ' loss of its broadcasting licence ( the master tapes, along with much of Rediffusion's programming, having been wiped or disposed of by their successor Thames Television ).

At the end of the year Lindsay-Hogg again collaborated with the Stones on their most ambitious project to date, the feature-length performance film The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, which also featured John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton and rising UK band Jethro Tull, but unfortunately the film was not released until 1996 because the group at the time felt that their own performances had been below par.

At that time Vladimir Lenin resided on Percy Circus, less than half a mile north of Clerkenwell Green.

At the end of the version in Flying Circus, a letter written by an enraged viewer ( voiced by John Cleese ) is shown to complain about the portrayal of lumberjacks in the sketch.

In the Marx Brothers ' movie At the Circus ( 1939 ), however, Harpo " speaks " in a movie with the brothers in the scene in which he visits the room of Little Professor Atom ( Jerry Maren ) and sneezes, clearly saying " At-choo !".

* Chico plays piano in At The Circus

Determined that her Marx Brothers references be respected, she ends the sequences of references by offering to pay Toby $ 500 if he'll sing " Lydia the Tattooed Lady " ( a song sung by J. Cheever Loophole ( Groucho ) in " At the Circus ").

At some time it broke and was buried under the Circus.

At Temple Bar to the west, as Fleet Street crosses the boundary out of the City of London, it becomes the Strand ; to the east, past Ludgate Circus, the route rises as Ludgate Hill.

At Sutro Blum led a partnership that acquired Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for $ 8m, selling it to Mattel four years later for $ 40m.

At the age of 73, the eminent architect Norman Shaw was brought in to resolve the design, and drew up proposals for the Circus and the Quadrant which were approved in principle, but still subject to indecision and dispute, both on property acquisition matters, and the retailers ' demand for bigger display windows.

File: Piccadilly Circus Station Ent. jpg | At the bottom of an entrance staircase

* Worzel Gummidge At The Circus ( 1956 )

At Piccadilly Circus, one of the busiest stations on the system, Holden designed ( 1925 – 28 ) a spacious travertine-lined circulating concourse and ticket hall below the roadway of the junction from which banks of escalators gave access to the platforms below.

At the Sacramento Music Circus, she played " Maria " in The Sound of Music in 1996 and " Molly Brown " in The Unsinkable Molly Brown in 2002.

* At the Circus ( 1902 )

At Hardwicke Circus Roundabout, a large junction in the centre of Carlisle, the A7 meets the A595 to the west and southern Cumbria and then continues to form part of Carlisle's one way system through the city centre, meeting the A69 and finally becoming the A6 near Carlisle railway station.