Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] [prep] london [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ’ ) . |
2 | I was born in London in nineteen thirty-eight , but my father was German , my mother was English , I was actually born in the German Hospital in London . |
3 | ‘ It was rather more difficult when I was based in London between foreign postings . |
4 | The modern origin of this approach is the Special Patrol Group ( SPG ) which was formed in London in 1965 to act as a mobile anti-crime group to help local police forces to deal with the rising rate of urban crime . |
5 | The influence of this critical forum has been exerted , above all , in the pages of Early music , a journal which was founded in London in 1973 to build a bridge between performers and scholars and which has been uniquely successful in doing so . |
6 | All this may have something to do with the conference 's unpublicised preliminary meeting which was held in London at the beginning of October . |
7 | The exhibition which was launched in London in June will tour seven other cities in Europe and the USA , showing aspects of daily Peruvian life . |
8 | She was born in London in 1863 , one of the eleven children of a Jewish family . |
9 | After the long sea journey , she was met in London by Mr Craven 's housekeeper , Mrs Medlock . |
10 | In Wensleydale , Bolton Castle looks across the broad valley to Penhill , which , legend has it , was once the haunt of a fierce giant , while the castle itself is the place where Mary Queen of Scots was placed under house arrest before she was taken to London to be executed . |
11 | The appeal is named after Amar , a 10-year-old boy orphaned by the bombings in the marshlands , who was flown to London for plastic surgery at Guy 's Hospital . |
12 | The firm was based in Rotterdam , though it was reorganized in London in 1837 . |
13 | It was overruled from London on the grounds later justified that victory would n't be a shock in the least . |
14 | The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied . |
15 | He was posted to London on promotion in 1953 and was replaced the following year by R. B. Wilson on transfer from the field staff in England . |
16 | He was born in London in 1555 , eldest son of a Master of Trinity House , from whom he was to inherit a substantial property . |
17 | He was born in London in 1592 , fifth child of a prosperous East Indian merchant at whose house Hawkins , Drake and Raleigh had been visitors . |
18 | After murdering the resulting child he was hanged in London in January 1679 . |
19 | He was confined to London on a £2,000 bond . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | He was arrested in London on Wednesday night . |
22 | He was arrested in London in 1723 for seditious libel , and again in 1732 for attacks on Sir Robert Walpole ( later first Earl of Orford ) and George II in The Royal Oak Journal . |
23 | 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 . ’ |