Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 2 | the local community — to decide within the broad financial constraints laid down by the local authority and in accordance with more general policies , what pattern of schooling would be best suited to the needs of the local community . |
| 3 | While the adults sat about and caught up with the local gossip , the children would round off the day with sports . |
| 4 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 5 | Breathing a sigh of relief , I drove over to the local airfield and arranged for the flight to take place a week earlier , just in case . |
| 6 | The County Council took into account a wide range of considerations , in including the the information that came through from the local plan authorities , in the preparation of their local plans over the past ten years or more . |
| 7 | On his way back , Joe called in at the local pawnbroker 's shop , run by ‘ Uncle ’ Jeremiah Baldwin and his daughter Annie . |
| 8 | Aggie persevered with the kitten and when it was time to get it neutered she went along to the local vet , who informed her that the tomcat was in fact a ‘ she ’ . |
| 9 | It was then that I decided to help myself , so I went along to the local college and enrolled in what appeared to me to be ‘ a way to relax ’ — the Alexander Technique . |
| 10 | She could tell she was going to get no response from Coffin , although he was being polite , when a crowd of youngsters swarmed in from the local youth club . |
| 11 | Now there 's a little piece , can I mention a little piece in the local thing , there 's a little press release here which Robert produced and sent off to the local newspaper . |
| 12 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 13 | I still feel that the situation brought about by the local BDA group was an unnecessary , waste of valuable hospital resources . |
| 14 | I still feel that the situation brought about by the local BDA group was an unnecessary waste of valuable hospital resources . |
| 15 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 16 | The councillor , who also spoke out to the local newspaper to counter what he said were council leader Jim Brooks ' unfounded assertions that jobs for the boys claims were simply smears , also called on other party members in the area to step forward publicly with any information they had on malpractice . |
| 17 | The councillor , who also spoke out to the local newspaper to counter what he said were council leader Jim Brooks 's unfounded assertions that jobbery claims were simply smears , also called on other party members in the area to step forward publicly with any information they had on malpractice . |
| 18 | There was persistent rumour ( probably close to the truth ) bandied about by the local gentry , that Anthony Foster had hidden himself with a paid labourer at Cumnor Place . |
| 19 | The East Anglians stood out from the local people , both by reason of their speech and their dress . |
| 20 | The winner had to be drawn in a raffle , picked out by the local policeman . |