Example sentences of "the [noun] to london " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually everywhere from the Highlands to London 's suburbs , main line and local , passenger trains were steadily busier , the total number carried exceeding that of pre-Beeching days when the system was much larger . |
| 2 | She removed the statue to London where it was identified . |
| 3 | He resented principally the returns to London after his long holidays in France and cherished periods at his house in Worcestershire . |
| 4 | Reluctantly , he agreed the exchange had taken place , and I rushed the story to London . |
| 5 | The proximity of the College to London with its many places of interest offers the opportunity also for family parties as there will be a limited number of places available for this purpose . |
| 6 | When posted to France he donated the bear to London Zoo where it was admired by Milne , who was inspired to name his fictional creation after the little fellow . |
| 7 | Then she 'd call the airport , enquire about flights and take the pictures to London herself . |
| 8 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 9 | Another type of within-turn switch is similar to the last type except that the switch to London English and back occurs wholly within the turn of one speaker : they are thus " self-interruptions " ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
| 10 | Ten years earlier Unwin had faced the alternative to London 's outward spread : either a continuous zone of free entry at varying degrees of density , its continuity broken by areas of public open space ; or a continuous green background as the setting for occasional development . |
| 11 | But , in the early days of production on the site , an order sent off from the mill to London was accidentally read and returned as tweed . |
| 12 | I immediately thought it over and said , ‘ Go and ask Semenov to issue a visa to your son 's wife , so that she can take the girl to London ’ . |
| 13 | Few Englishmen would have disagreed with Archbishop Benson when he was describing the visitors to London for the 1887 Jubilee . |
| 14 | I had the chance to audition for the transfer to London cast of Another Country which requires young actors to play seventeen-year-olds . |
| 15 | The return to London had not , despite the paper 's success , been a particularly happy time for the Scot . |
| 16 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 17 | Daniel Defoe saw fish transported live from the Fenland to London ‘ in great butts fill 'd with water in waggons as the carriers draw other goods ’ . |
| 18 | He took the Underground due east to the Bank , then the Northern Line under the Thames to London Bridge . |
| 19 | It will pass through Folkestone and Ashford then under the Thames to London . |
| 20 | Margaret Townsend had spend some time helping her sister with the large growing family , especially during the frequent pregnancies , and she had lived with the poet 's mother in Stow Hill , Newport , until the move to London . |
| 21 | Isaac Abendana ‘ having lighted his Pipe , fell down dead ’ 17 July 1699 while visiting his friend Arthur Charlett [ q.v. ] , master of University College , and a merchant Jew passing through the town conveyed the body to London for burial , putting an end to a thirty-seven-year Oxbridge career during which time he had a virtual monopoly on Hebrew studies there . |
| 22 | The steam narrowboats which operated from the Midlands to London could carry only 12 tons but could tow an unpowered ‘ butty ’ boat behind . |
| 23 | More than 45 firefighters were called to the scene at Preston Brook on the M56 in Cheshire after the tanker carrying kerosene crashed on to the Liverpool to London line . |
| 24 | Gosling and Tillett appear to have wanted to limit the strike to London , though on tactics the latter blew , hot and cold . |
| 25 | The exact details of the complaint are not recorded , but they were taken seriously enough by the Goldsmiths , who summoned the deputy to London to explain his conduct to them in person . |
| 26 | The treks to London ; looking through reports and papers on the train ; the uncomfortable suits ; worried , tense questioning and pressure , pressure , pressure . |
| 27 | Derby 's action in disregarding Lee 's ineligibility may force the League to order a rematch or award the game to London . |
| 28 | Until the 1840s the supply of coal from the area to London was tightly and effectively controlled as a virtual monopoly . |
| 29 | Reuters flashed the news to London shortly afterwards , and Sir Howard Kennard , the British Ambassador in Warsaw , sent a coded phone call at 8.30 reporting the attack . |
| 30 | It was ironic that Mr Lamont gave details of aid to BR at the same time as the old-world Princess Margaret Rose was steaming across the countryside to London 's Marylebone station to raise £2 million for the museum-like Great Central Railway . |