He took a scholarship to Cambridge, after which I lost sight of him; but I would occasionally think of him down the years, assuming that he had forged ahead in one of the liberal professions.
I sat at the back of the bus with a beer in hand - until the money disappeared - after which I soaked up the sights as they raced by".
Perhaps life really is built on simple truths, truths of which I have long lost sight in my stubborn scepticism - perhaps irony is a British malaise after all.
In Grayson's temple, there are no collectable dragon statuettes in sight, which I suppose is why he's an artist and I'm just destined to spend my life scouring the Betterware catalogue for wind-chime bird scarers.
I spend my time abroad thinking constantly about the inevitably fatal return journey and when I get home I suffer a mild form of PTSD in which I find even the sight of an aircraft upsetting.
I saw several couples whose expedition equipment comprised Tesco bags and a senior gentleman who was transporting the remains of the family picnic down the mountain in a red tartan shopper – a wonderful and uniquely British sight which I'll call upon in low moments for years to come.
Again, I looked to history and discovered that those women who had achieved at the level at which I had set my sights had been childless and those that were not had suffered constant guilt at not being able to meet the demands of both their work and their children.
I sit next to a mother and daughter who have turned up on three occasions: the only previous glimpse they got of Prince was spotting him riding a bicycle around the car park, which I suppose is a sight worth seeing in itself.
Kevin has some new, architecturally designed sideburns, at the sight of which I popped another pill, and in this first episode they were pointed in the direction of Dean and Sarah.
This catwalk sight gag, which I suppose is meant to indicate that the women have been laid bare, in fact indicates that the director doesn't trust the import of his comedy.
I brought mine to a wicker rocker on the front veranda, from which I could contemplate the surreal sight of eight people in white playing croquet while a man practiced fly-casting on a putting green, ignored by five ibis.
