Example sentences of "was [prep] london [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When I was in London during the early years of this period I often stayed with my mother in Hampton Court .
2 According to Thietmar of Merseburg , Emma was in London during the siege of 1016 , and she may be the lady referred to in the poem LiDsmannaflokkr .
3 I was in London on 8 March 1943 , the night of the Bethnal Green tube-station tragedy .
4 An investigation by the Financial Times and ABC News discovered that William Casey , then Reagan 's campaign director — who , it was claimed , was also at the Madrid meeting — was in London on July 27-29 .
5 So , he was in London on some business or other and had simply dropped by to tell her that Jeff and Silvia had got engaged .
6 The President of United Motors — who was in London at that moment — had also declined to comment on a local issue which , he had said was a matter for local management .
7 I arrived at the station in good time for the train but I did n't have to wait more than three or four minutes and I was in London at ten to eleven .
8 In 1875 the notorious Duchess of Sutherland , responsible for some of the most brutal Clearances , was in London with the Duke lionising Mr Moody .
9 ‘ Domino was in London with you , was n't she ? ’ she said , jerking her gaze away forcefully .
10 Before long , both sides were accusing each other of breaches of the agreement , and in the autumn of 1931 , while Gandhi was in London for the second , inconclusive , Round Table conference , civil disobedience and political violence broke out again .
11 She was in London for a Royal Gala ballet performance to helps an AIDS trust .
12 Birgit Nilsson was in London for a dinner to pay tribute to Christopher Raeburn .
13 At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd .
14 By early June he was in London for the translation from St Paul 's to Canterbury of the body of St Ælfheah .
15 I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go .
16 The agent was in London by noon .
17 At that time on an October Sunday morning , there was next to no traffic on the roads and I was in London by nine o'clock .
18 I saw BB King use one when I was in London in 1972 .
19 I was in London until this morning . ’
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