Example sentences of "london [noun] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 2 | Islington is a multi-ethnic , inner city London borough with a child population of 29,000 . |
| 3 | It is there in Stanley and the Women , which persuaded Marilyn Butler — somewhat against the odds , but none the less intelligibly — to interpret it in the London Review as a critique of male supremacy , but which has left a very different impression on others . |
| 4 | ‘ We ’ turned out to be a husband who worked at the London HQ of an oil company and two children , a boy of twelve and a girl of fifteen , both at boarding school . |
| 5 | Copies of the leaflet , headlined ‘ Help Yourself Unlimited ’ , are believed to have been circulated in London shops as a prelude to what shopkeepers fear could be a campaign of organised theft . |
| 6 | Before Thursday , Labour held only three seats outside London south of a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel . |
| 7 | After returning to Britain in 1988 , Elizabeth got a job with the exclusive magazine London Portrait as an advertising and promotions manager . |
| 8 | Gay artist Philip Core died whilst fighting in court the Customs seizure of materials he had sent to his London home during a trip to America . |
| 9 | His brother , meanwhile , made an enemy in the fraught and envious film world , and cashed in his London home for a Hasselblad and a rough-looking Volkswagen Derby . |
| 10 | The house was occupied as the London residence of an art dealer . |
| 11 | Croydon Corporation to build a new sub-station in Tennison Road , Norwood , and lease part of it to London Transport at a peppercorn rent . |
| 12 | Berncia House , in Vane Terrace , Darlington , is a regular haunt of London officials from a number of ministries who come to the town on business . |
| 13 | The building provided London bases for a number of international businesses including MacQuillan 's . |
| 14 | Elena would regard anything called the Central London Polytechnic as an institution of the same rank , and therefore worthy of her . |
| 15 | As a well-known London character with a penchant for miniature kites , and a lecturer on sewing standards , his advice supplements what one finds in the manufacturers ' manuals . |
| 16 | Housekeeper Anne Jackson told how Mr Elton had turned the sitting room of his £750,000 London flat into an office as he desperately hunted for a new job . |
| 17 | It will loiter in the London area for a week before heading for the rest of Britain . |
| 18 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 19 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 20 | The Victorian CLOCK TOWER was erected in 1854 on the southern approach to London Bridge as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington , though there was not enough money for the proposed statue . |
| 21 | Howard , who was becoming a country gentleman with some town property ( as opposed to his father , who would have seen himself as a London merchant with a country house ) , set about enlarging and redecorating his ‘ country seat ’ . |
| 22 | At the end of February , he was admitted to the London Clinic for an operation to remove piles . |
| 23 | A pugnacious as well as perceptive dramatic critic , Macdonell at one point occupied twelve pages of the London Mercury with a criticism of the art of ( Sir ) Noel Coward [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | If you have a London theatre with a gap left in the November schedule , phone Laura Thompson on 01-969 6524 . |
| 25 | Under the charter-party , payment was to be in ‘ cash ’ into a London bank by a Sunday , but the charterer 's London bank did not deliver a payment order to the owner 's bank until the Monday . |
| 26 | Yet , from some moralistic quirk in his nature , he had eschewed the empty life of a socialite , and joined the City of London police as a constable . |
| 27 | It reminded me of the London tubes during an air raid . |
| 28 | It came after I saw a priest in a London restaurant with a louche young man . |
| 29 | All in all , a nostalgic look back at London Airport at a time when airliners had their own individual characters . |
| 30 | The records of the Marine Society , a charity which prepared poor London boys for a career at sea , show a slight increase in stature up to about 1790 , a decline until about 1800 then a sharp increase up to 1830 , correlated with London labourers ' wages . |