Sentence examples for a schoolboy studying from inspiring English sources

A regency council was appointed to act for his successor, Prince Ananda Mahidol, then a schoolboy studying in Switzerland, until he came of age.

While still a schoolboy he studied oboe with Emile Cassagnaud at the Bern Conservatory and composition with the Swiss-domiciled Hungarian composer Sandor Veress.

Written in rude Italian Saturnian metre, it had little poetic merit, to judge from the less than 50 surviving lines and from the comments of Cicero (Brutus) and Horace (Epistles); according to Horace, 1st-century-bc schoolboys studied the work.

This is supported by the wide SDs in both the SRU Regional Assessment Centre cohort and our schoolboy cohort samples and also the CIs surrounding the mean difference between age groups for all assessed parameters in the schoolboy study (table 3).

While significant differences in height, weight and grip strength are evident across age groups in the schoolboy study (ANOVA, table 2), post hoc testing reveals initial year on year significant differences only up until the age of 15 years.

One afternoon while David was still a schoolboy, he was at home studying when the doorbell rang.

The economist Adam Smith's theories on the interconnectedness of the world -- capitalism -- were significantly influenced by the Stoicism that he studied as a schoolboy, under a teacher who had translated Marcus Aurelius' works.

"I studied English and German as a schoolboy, but I have not been able to study them further since coming to the West.

The same was true of his next novel, Rend mig i traditionerne (1958; "Kick Me in the Traditions"), a study of a schoolboy and his puberty crisis.

Back to Mr Cowley: "The one thing I learnt when I was a schoolboy doing O-level film studies was that nothing in films happens by accident.

Taking that vocabulary, I made it something Itsik studies in his religious school and invented a schoolboy song about it, which I have Itsik's classmates commit to memory.