Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] london in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 2 | British Rail will whisk you down from London in less than an hour . |
| 3 | We had organized a helicopter to get him down to London in time . |
| 4 | When a deputation of framework knitters from the east Midlands came down to London in 1812 to lobby in support of a bill to regulate the hosiery trade , they had no difficulty in making contact with trade unionists . |
| 5 | By the time Bernei went over for London in the 69th minute , Sheffield had accumulated a massive 32–0 lead . |
| 6 | By the autumn of 1935 the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission ( and Hector Charlesworth ) were replaced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a Director-General brought over from London in the person of W.E . |
| 7 | Further financial advances were made to Cornish gentry , many of whom were off to London in search of fortune . |
| 8 | How smart and glamorous they looked when they went off to London in the evenings , Dad in his suits and Eva with shawls and hats and expensive shoes and handbags . |
| 9 | While the campaign doubtless sent many young people off to London in search of trips , eroticism , and communal life it also energized the police . |
| 10 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 11 | The institutional manifestation of non-intervention was the Non-Intervention Committee , set up in London in September 1936 to supervise the application of a principle observed by the democracies and by smaller European countries but openly flouted by Europe 's three most powerful dictatorships . |
| 12 | In 1962 , the Institute of Directors ( IOD ) established a Retirement Advisory Bureau ; and the first private retirement consultancy was set up in London in 1965 ( IPM 1965 ) . |
| 13 | Bill gave up his job of 20 years as a tea taster and blender , exchanging the daily ‘ trundling up to London in a bowler hat for driving about 1,000 miles each week looking for antiques with Angela ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I know I should n't have minded , you 've a right to your own life , it 's just that — well , you never come up to London in the evenings , you 're always too busy . |
| 15 | There was a possibility that a recording of his might be used as theme music for a commercial — if he could come up to London in the near future this could be discussed . |
| 16 | It was the three main reception rooms of an old Victorian folly built for the Crystal Palace Exhibition , backing on to Beckenham golf course which , I suppose became a very desirable place to be out of London in Victorian times . |
| 17 | This issue of sexism has a direct relevance to the main topic of this book : a survey of housewives and their attitudes to housework which I carried out in London in 1971 . |
| 18 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 19 | Sometimes , when it snowed heavily , the filmmakers were terrified lest she would not get back from London in time . |
| 20 | Back in London in 1943 , Dorothea Ramsey served on the Advisory Case Sub-Committee of the National Council of Social Service . |
| 21 | Back in London in 1966 she married Hugo Young , the political columnist , biographer and broadcaster , in a ceremony conducted by Cardinal Hume , then Abbot of Ampleforth . |
| 22 | Back in London in the Sylheti community , having a young , good-looking wife from a comparatively high class is in turn a status symbol . |
| 23 | Back in London in Shepherds Bush the celebrations would , I knew , be under way , led by my Dad , my greatest supporter . |
| 24 | John and Eleanor arrived back in London in June 1987 and John took a secular job . |
| 25 | , a delightful person , was my guardian angel for the first ten days of the tour , and was also good enough to rearrange my return journey from Hyderabad , so that I could get back in London in time for an appointment on 29 November . |
| 26 | The German-Jewish family moved back to London in 1931 , where the 18-year-old Goodman took his first job as an apprentice to the leading commercial photographer of the day , Shaw Wildman . |
| 27 | I travelled back to London in high spirits for the big meeting in Hungary . |
| 28 | Seymour and Collins had diplomatic immunity ; he let them all depart back to London in their two cars fifteen minutes later , warning them that he would want Quinn , for whom there was no diplomatic status , available for the taking of lengthy statements in London . |
| 29 | The son of an Australian physicist , he was born in London but made his name initially in several Australian movies and came back to London in 1949 as a protégé of Laurence Olivier . |
| 30 | D'Arcy drove his passengers back to London in a mood of suppressed fury . |