Sentence examples for a schoolboy at a from inspiring English sources

Nadir Shah in turn reigned from 1929 to 1933, and although he, like Barack Obama, tried to build up the national army, that force of 40,000 men couldn't help him when he was assassinated by a schoolboy at a high school graduation ceremony.

The Birkenhead-born Saints boss comes from a family of Reds and was a schoolboy at Anfield as a young goalkeeper.

"I was a schoolboy at Liverpool.

There was unmistakably an influenza pandemic in 1890 (Winston Churchill, then a schoolboy at Harrow, wrote a poem about it) but what happened after it had run its course?

But Stott faced a major turning point as a schoolboy at Rugby when he heard an address by EJH Nash, staff of the Varsity and Public Schools branch of the Scripture Union.

Born in Bombay to a Kashmiri Muslim family; a schoolboy at Rugby, a student at Cambridge; the 1980s superstar of a fresh, border-hopping brand of cosmopolitan English-language fiction; then, after the fatwa, the fugitive proof of the downside of fame before he came to rest in Manhattan: Rushdie could hardly dodge migration and cultural mingling as a recurrent motif in his work.

He lived with it as a schoolboy at St Paul's and as a student at Cambridge, and saw it hailed as a sign of national strength by his predecessor at St Paul's and Cambridge, John Milton.

As a schoolboy at the Piaristengym nasium, in Vienna, a city where political extremism and antisemitism had found fertile ground, George was initially drawn to socialism, but it was Zionism that soon became the main focus of his teenage activities.

As a schoolboy at Eton, Harry Eyres didn't warm to the Roman poet Horace.

He had been signed up as a schoolboy at Tottenham before disaster struck.

I saw Scholes break the habit of a lifetime by smiling broadly, like a schoolboy, at his own deed.