Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] london [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 2 | Tom and Faye 's parents were living in London for a year , and most of Bill 's family lived in Cairns , so there was to be no Russell or Hamilton family Christmas this year . |
| 3 | Over 1,000 high-rise blocks of flats were built in London in the Sixties and Seventies over 200 in Birmingham . |
| 4 | And his films were shown in London at the Alhambra , and were , this was something new and exciting and erm therefore helped to establish the popularity of the newsreel . |
| 5 | Two inoculation houses were opened in London by the end of the year and , in conjunction with his father and brothers , he had begun setting up partnerships throughout the country with ‘ Eminent physicians and surgeons daily applying … to be appointed partners for particular counties , or for foreign parts ’ . |
| 6 | In May , Thomas and Martha were tried in London for the murder of their children ; Thomas was found not guilty — as there was no evidence to suggest a motive , or that he was in the area at the time — and Martha was acquitted on the grounds of insanity . |
| 7 | Intelligence reports were passed to London by the Norwegian underground , which included a plan of the German anti-aircraft ( ack-ack ) gun positions in the locality . |
| 8 | The proceedings of the Legislative Council were sent to London for the perusal of the Colonial Office and were reported in detail by the local press . |
| 9 | These exhibitions were staged in London during the past decade and it is fascinating to read in Mapping how she perceives the achievements and losses during that period . |
| 10 | It could be argued that this was hastened in London by the Great Plague of 1665 when the familiar sight of cartloads of corpses contrasted with the decency and sanitary advantage of encoffining the dead . |
| 11 | Shareholders will be circulated with details of this ‘ in a matter of weeks ’ , according to yesterday 's statement , and they will be interested to hear the details of what was dismissed by London as a ‘ piece of financial engineering , pure and simple . ’ |
| 12 | He was confined to London on a £2,000 bond . |
| 13 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 14 | The service was operated in London by the Electrophone Company of Gerrard Street under licence from the National Telephone Company Ltd . |
| 15 | Mr Furbank gives an excellent picture of this hand-to-mouth existence , not so different from that which Samuel Johnson was leading in London at the same time . |
| 16 | " Town " or coal gas was produced in London from the early 19th century until the 1970s , when it was finally replaced by natural gas . |
| 17 | Sir Charles was going to London on the next day , and Barrymore , his butler , was packing his suitcases . |
| 18 | , Emma ( 1838–1912 ) , evangelist , philanthropist , and manager of the Old Vic in the years before it was taken over by her niece Lilian Baylis [ q.v. ] , was born in London into a lower middle-class Anglo-German family . |
| 19 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 20 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 21 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 22 | It was overruled from London on the grounds later justified that victory would n't be a shock in the least . |
| 23 | The German blitz was resumed in the early months of this year and then a fresh terror , the " flying bombs " , was directed against London in the summer . |
| 24 | The order was placed one Thursday evening in March and was delivered in London on the Tuesday . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His friend Augustus de Morgan was working in London on the foundations of logic , as was another Irishman , George Boole , who developed an algebra of classes . |
| 27 | All this may have something to do with the conference 's unpublicised preliminary meeting which was held in London at the beginning of October . |