Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] [prep] london [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied . |
| 2 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
| 3 | He was born in London in 1555 , eldest son of a Master of Trinity House , from whom he was to inherit a substantial property . |
| 4 | He was born in London in 1592 , fifth child of a prosperous East Indian merchant at whose house Hawkins , Drake and Raleigh had been visitors . |
| 5 | After murdering the resulting child he was hanged in London in January 1679 . |
| 6 | He was confined to London on a £2,000 bond . |
| 7 | He first emerges shortly before 1665 , when he was established in London at the sign of Hermes Trismegistus , in Watling Street , as a maker of chemicals , largely medicinal . |
| 8 | He was arrested in London on Wednesday night . |
| 9 | He was arrested in London in 1723 for seditious libel , and again in 1732 for attacks on Sir Robert Walpole ( later first Earl of Orford ) and George II in The Royal Oak Journal . |