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 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 Deauville she met an Egyptian by the name of Pulley Bey.

At Manzikert, on the Murat River, north of Lake Van, Diogenes was met by Alp Arslan.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

At this point Curtis attended the 1980 Pace sponsored Stirling Moss benefit day at Brands Hatch, and met fellow Farnham resident Victor Gauntlett.

At the age of 19, Lancaster met Nick Cravat, with whom he continued to work throughout his life.

At the estuary of the Isère River, the Teutons and the Ambrones met Marius, whose well-defended camp they did not manage to overrun.

At 5: 00 pm, he met with Congressional leaders who contentiously opposed a blockade and demanded a stronger response.

At this consultation, the MRMRM document was met with resistance, and concern was raised in particular that CUIC was focusing to narrowly on reconciliation of ministries and " not taking seriously our commitment to working on those issues of systemic racism that remain at the heart of our continuing and separated life as churches here in the United States.

At 5: 24 pm, Cooper was informed that his demands had been met ; and, at 5: 39 pm, the aircraft landed at Sea-Tac ( Seattle-Tacoma Airport ).

At the foot of Mount Chimborazo, near the modern city of Riobamba ( Ecuador ) he met and defeated the forces of the great Inca warrior Rumiñahui with the aid of Cañari tribesmen who served as guides and allies to the conquering Spaniards.

At St. Cyprian's, Blair first met Cyril Connolly, who became a noted writer and, as the editor of Horizon, published many of Orwell's essays.

At least one work of fiction, the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, uses Gaia philosophy as a central point to the plot, and may arguably represent a fictional parallel to Sir James Lovelock in the character of Dr. Cid, who is met with skepticism from the scientific and social community when he promotes the idea of a " living Earth ".

At first they met no opposition.

At the conference Peano met Bertrand Russell and gave him a copy of Formulario.

At least 18, 000 people met their deaths under the guillotine or otherwise, after accusations of counter-revolutionary activities.

At the end of the day, members met for meetings and had a curfew of 9 p. m. On Sundays, the members respected the " Holy day " and did no unnecessary work, but attended church services, singing groups, and other social activities.

At the age of 23 he learned about his biological parents, contacted his mother, and met her and his then 16 year old sister for the first time.

At one he met a 25-year-old bartender named Pierre Foegel, who Harrington believed was nothing but " a hustler out for what he could get ".

At the moment when she met the gaze of the judge, the beckoning of her arms seemed to hold the promise that if he preferred her over the other goddesses, she would present Paris with a bride of unmatched beauty, one like herself.

At the same time, Ribbentrop's efforts to convert the Anti-Comintern Pact into an anti-British alliance met with considerable hostility from the Japanese over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39, but with the Italians Ribbentrop enjoyed some apparent success.

At the age of 17, he met a holidaying girl named Cathy.

In an interview Shoji Nishio reported: " At that time, a former Karate sensei of the Butokukai named Toyosaku Sodeyama who was running Konishi Sensei ’ s dojo and also teaching there came up to me and said: “ I met someone who is like a ‘ phantom ’.

At some point, he met and befriended fellow martial artist Danny Rand.

At the age of 19, during his second year at Deccan College in Poona ( now Pune ), he met a very old Muslim woman, a spiritual master named Hazrat Babajan, who kissed him on the forehead.

At the end of that season, the Celtics and the Lakers renewed their rivalry from 2008 when they met again in the NBA Finals for a record 12th time.