Sentences with phrase «as a schoolboy in»

Born in Romford, London, Tony grew up in Dagenham, signing for Arsenal as a schoolboy in 1980.

today that ideologically hegemonic «centre ground» constantly reinforced by the entire mass media, is massively to the Right of that earlier post war consensus narrative (and quite contrary to all the mixed economy, Keynsian, economic assumptions I was taught as «true» as schoolboy in A level Economics in the 1960's).

Alexander attended Park Mains High School in Erskine, also in Renfrewshire, from where he joined the Labour Party as a schoolboy in 1982.

Don't let the phrase «shorts suit» inadvertently hurtle you back to your days as a schoolboy in short pants.

The author began his study of Latin as a schoolboy in London, studied ancient history at Oxford University and worked as a Latin tutor before becoming a journalist.

Not exact matches

The idea of a poor mortal confronting and shaking his finger at the Ancient of Days as though he were an errant schoolboy is almost impossible to hold steadily in mind.

He looked half his size, doubled up in appalling agony; it was as if the flames had literally got him and he shrank — shrank into a schoolboy flying in panic and pain, scrambling over a fence, running on.

If you were playing on a Sunday morning and got caught out by that goal you would be steaming 3 players v 1 and not one players actually picked him up, so he turns and runs 60 yards Massive schoolboy error And why is the team virtually the same barring forced changes What's the point of having a squad WENGER OUT and you will hear this again and again One difference in the teams, they play as a team Ramsey and Alexis awful

I was proved right yet again as Tottenham oozed confidence while Arsenal looked like nervous schoolboys, especially in the second half....

Fair point but we have had this issue for three years now and that must mean Wenger does not want a DM in the team, has he forgotten what we won back in the days of Veirra and petit.he seems to want box to box midfielders Letting tv5 go without replacing him as promised and loaning Jenko out and not recalling are schoolboy errors not what your expect from an 8m a year manager!

his lying started off as a bit of a schoolboy joke, then some people on here actually believed in his tripe and this all went to his head.

Colorado State sophomore Steve Bartalo, the WAC's leading rusher last fall with 1,113 yards in 10 games, was passed over largely because of his 5» 9», 185 - pound dimensions as a schoolboy quarterback.

33 attempts at goal 75 % possession and lose comfortably it can only happen to arsenal it would be funny if not so tragic and I'm for one not buying the reason we lost is because of De Gea it's as much poor finishing as it is great goal keeping more aggression with the chances and you score I don't care who's in goal just smash it doesn't have to look pretty and I don't have to say very much about the defending it's schoolboy stuff all this talk about koscielny (bosscielny) never got that isn't physical enough to be an Adams or Campbell gets muscled off the ball far too often he's a good player don't get me wrong but he ain't world class and definitely isn't a leader I'd replace that whole back line and drop xhaka and ramsey for new signings yeah ramsey set up a nice goal but that kid can not hit water if he fell out of a boat his shooting is awful always sky's them very frustrating player.

We had kept three clean sheets in a row and all the fans were praising Mustafi, Koscielny and Monreal as being a brilliant back three (which they are usually) but how can we account for the schoolboy errors committed by Koss The Boss and Mustafi?

England international Nigel Martyn played for Cornwall Schoolboys - keeping wicket, naturally - as well as his local side before pursuing a career in football.

My earliest memory of Geordie, as a player, was when he first appeared in the reserves, looking like a schoolboy but from the start instantly recognisable as the player he later became full of energy, quality & pace.

Sterling himself had something of a down year after exploding onto the scene as a schoolboy; he found himself used in a number of positions over the course of the year and only found his best form in fits and spurts but, when focused and on top of his game, he can be unstoppable in his rampages along the right flank.

I remember as a schoolboy sitting next to him at an exhibition in Earls Court, though all I can recall him saying, to a team - mate sat beside him, was, «I've got a bloody stomach ache.»

My father was an accomplished amateur player for a club side in Edinburgh and, along with being a junior school headmaster, he was also the master in charge of a schoolboys» 1st XI - a job he clearly loved just as much as being headmaster.

He says that as a schoolboy growing up in Newport in the 1980s, he was inspired by her as Prime Minister.

10.30 am update from PA: «Tory leader David Cameron today admitted he had done things in his past he «should not have done and regretted» over allegations he smoked cannabis as a schoolboy at Eton.

But he explained his business approach in his own memoirs called «Dirty Politics, Dirty Times» when he describes selling doughnuts to fellow schoolboys at an undisclosed profit: «There were probably people then as now who — if they discovered exactly what I was doing — might have found my practice a little sharp.

His paper was prescient, but was not published until 1968 — years after his death — in part because his supervisor at the National Physical Laboratory, Charles Galton Darwin, described it as a «schoolboy essay».

Charlton joined Concerted in 1953 as an England Schoolboys prodigy with a hulking name and was yearning to filch his assess in Matt Busby's free - flowing team.

Larking about like overgrown schoolboys might seem the easiest job in the world — especially when, as in the case of Grand Tour presenter - in - chief Jeremy

Transposing a Tolstoy novella to contemporary Paris, L'argent follows a counterfeit bill as it originates as a prop in a schoolboy prank, then circulates like a virus among the corrupt and the virtuous alike before landing with a young truck driver and leading him to incarceration and violence.

Soho had been the setting, in 1968, of the auditions I attended — at the Garrick Theatre — as well as my unofficial screen test in D'Arblay Street, and my first meeting with Malcolm McDowell and Richard Warwick, my fellow rebel schoolboys, in a restaurant in Chinatown.

While it features the delicious Erin Grey who no doubt featured in many a schoolboy's fantasy life (including the present author's), what it lacks as exploitation is a sheer sense of fun and mischief as is the case with movies like Battle Beyond the Stars...

CIRCUITO ASCARI, Spain — As it left the pits, the chalky - gray 2018 Porsche 718 Cayman GTS set its lip like a schoolboy in a fistfight and made a dive for The Screw, a wicked downhill left.

Kerouac, Steinbeck — I well remember reading their road novels as a schoolboy — and, in a more extracurricular vein, Brock Yates of «Cannonball Run» fame.

Do you think this is how Clem interpreted the painting when he first encountered it as a schoolboy, or is his adult self instead interpreting the painting retrospectively in light of his experiences since then?

After a kicker set on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965 (the civil rights movement's Bloody Sunday), the story makes January 20, 2009 (President Obama's inauguration) a base of operations as it samples Lewis» past via his reminiscences for two schoolboys and their mother, who've shown up early at his office on that milestone day for African Americans.

This was followed by The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and Smiley's People (1979); these three books are often known as the Karla trilogy for the Soviet spymaster, Karla, who features prominently in the books.

The memoir is not limited to Rushdie's experiences living under the threat of murder, as he looks back upon all the elements that led him to write The Satanic Verses in the first place: life with his father, his schoolboy days, his simultaneous fascination and unbelief in God and, more specifically, Islam.

What role does education play in the characters» lives, from Ronald's pride when Monica is admitted to Oxford to the struggles Ben and Tommy face as schoolboys?

Signed as a schoolboy at the age of 14, Beckham's career journey is illustrated in this exhibition and includes some of his medals and commemorative shirts.

As a schoolboy the young Damien used to stand entranced in front of a Hoyland abstract in Leeds City Art Gallery, and he never forgot the impression it made.

But the tedious, almost quixotic nature of the endeavor — forcing a dense impasto from delicate color pencils — leads one to suspect that the motivation originates not in the common culture, but in a more holistic domain that includes lived experience: as a schoolboy, Grotjahn was rewarded for achievements with poker chips meant to be «cashed in» for prizes.

Years later he recalled as a schoolboy visiting the local art gallery in Kirkcaldy and seeing 12 colourful still - lifes by Peploe.

Included in Andre's catalogue from his show at the Haags Gemeentemuseum Hollis Frampton states, «Carl Andre and I met as schoolboys.

Cattelan himself is seen in a half life - size waxwork, wearing German artist Joseph Beuys's iconic grey felt suit, dangling helplessly from a coat hook as though left there in some schoolboy prank.

The statue, titled Him, is made of wax and portrays the former German chancellor as a young schoolboy kneeling in prayer.

For her Jens F. project, Schorr set out to create a comprehensive, yet unusual portrait of a young man — by photographing a German schoolboy posed as Helga, the housewife whom American painter Andrew Wyeth studied in secret for nearly twenty years.

When I was schoolboy we did projects on the Aswan High Dam, which was seen as a towering human achievement back in the seventies.

City litigator Patrick Raggett recounts the turmoil and ultimate vindication he faced in pursuing a damages claim against the Catholic Church for abuse suffered as a schoolboy

Waller LJ: As to the law the judge had stated: «Following the guidance of the Court of Appeal in Mullin v Richards [1998] 1 WLR 1305 -LSB-[1998] 1 All ER 920], I am satisfied that the test is whether an ordinarily prudent and reasonable 13 - year - old schoolboy in each defendant's situation would have realised that his actions gave rise to a risk of injury.»

In today's New York Times there's a really good Op - Ed piece, «Clause and Effect» by Adam Freedman, that takes us through the role that these and other commas might play, and is, I'm fairly certain, the only journalistic piece I've ever read that brings up the Latin ablative absolute, one of the banes of my existence as a schoolboy.