Example sentences of "london [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered my father describing to me what happened after a German V2 rocket had hit and destroyed out house in St John 's Wood in London during the second world war . |
| 2 | And Philip Ziegler has moved from HarperCollins to Sinclair-Stevenson and Mandarin , with his book about London during the Second World War ; publication will be in 1995 and the agent is Diana Baring at Curtis Brown . |
| 3 | In London during the Great Plague people chewed on the root , believing that it would protect them from the disease . |
| 4 | For the socialist press , in any event , the burning issue in working-class London during the hot summer of 1898 was not the Hooligans , but the water shortage which was reaching crisis proportions . |
| 5 | It is of interest to note that both venues were designated as public meeting places following outbreaks of public disorder and public clashes with the police when people were seeking to demonstrate and protest publicly in central London during the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | The condition of London during the nineteenth century was particularly bad . |
| 7 | In parts of London during the last century , for example , it was certainly not safe to walk the streets at night , with violence and robbery commonplace , as the stories of Charles Dickens illustrate . |
| 8 | These exhibitions were staged in London during the past decade and it is fascinating to read in Mapping how she perceives the achievements and losses during that period . |
| 9 | Excluding the lay fraternities , 280 private chantries were set up in London during the fourteenth century , the heyday of the movement . |
| 10 | Gooch need not miss more than one day of competitive cricket if , for instance , he returns to London between the three-day game with an Indian Board President 's XI and the opening one-day international which takes place in Ahmedabad on January 16 . |
| 11 | So everyone drifted off , apart from Eddie Tonks , the NZRFU council chairman , who remained in London for the International Board meeting . |
| 12 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 13 | But they always rushed back to London for the first night of every West End show . |
| 14 | Varese as well as Ives , and an Elliott Carter premiere — not much feminine sensibility there , though it all made for a classic Oliver Knussen pile-up of Americana , topped out with a violin concerto by Marc Neikrug that Pinchas Zukerman had brought to London for the first time . |
| 15 | This is one of three drawings of Lopokova by Picasso , the latter having come to London for the first time to work on designs and sets for Massine 's Le Tricorne , writes Joanna Gibbon . |
| 16 | Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time . |
| 17 | PETER SCHMEICHEL arrives in London for the first time this season convinced Manchester United can become the first Premier League champions . |
| 18 | I remember that , a few years later , when I took Richard to London for the first time , we experienced a very heavy raid . |
| 19 | Seeing London for the first time , not very impressed , I I liked Crystal Palace but tt . |
| 20 | Doug Green suggests that it was too much for a teacher working in London for the first time : |
| 21 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 22 | Elland Road stages the event between August 1–2 as the tournament moves out of London for the first time . |
| 23 | Few Englishmen would have disagreed with Archbishop Benson when he was describing the visitors to London for the 1887 Jubilee . |
| 24 | Oh , and I 'm thinking of going up to London for the best part of next week . " |
| 25 | Before leaving London for the second time , the Captain of the aircraft received an updated weather report showing that conditions were bad at Manchester and deteriorating quickly at Prestwick . |
| 26 | When you consider that there are 120 dealers in the are you can appreciate why Bath is second only to London for the serious hunter . |
| 27 | As I have to be in London for the entire week of the General Election , I applied to Darlington Town Hall for a postal vote . |
| 28 | Between 1862 and 1867 Hardy worked in London for the ecclesiastical architect A. W. Blomfield , but returned to his old employer in Dorchester in July 1867 . |
| 29 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 30 | It was also one of the attractions of London for the intellectually-minded tourist . |