Example sentences of "london [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 An article in the Jewish Chronicle last year , in which Wesker wrote that all he wanted was enough money to give the play a chance to be seen in London led to a benefactor , who wishes to remain anonymous , phoning him up and offering to underwrite the venture to the tune of £13,500 .
2 The first ‘ stunt ’ of this kind in London occurred in a revue at the Hippodrome when the star dancer ‘ toe-tapped ’ up and down an escalator .
3 At least the Scots were able to bid their farewells from Suva in better heart when the result from Dublin filtered through , John Jeffrey even suggesting that the air fare back to London to appear as a pundit on television 's Rugby Special might just be worth paying to hear the reaction of some of his English chums !
4 As soon as he was of age he took himself off to London to work as a merchant 's clerk .
5 On the completion of his articles in 1814 he moved to London to work as an assistant in the office of David Laing [ q.v. ] , architect to the customs and excise , before setting up in independent practice there in 1818 .
6 Next step was London to work for a shipping company and to play rugby for Blackheath .
7 GOLD bullion closed up a dollar in London helped by a pause in the dollar 's advance with an absence of fresh news .
8 After much consultation with the Archbishop and with his approval he resigned in 1974 to continue his ministry first in Leeds and afterwards in London living with a friend , Dr Robert Towler .
9 It was known in the dairy-farming areas of south-west England that milkmaids , and others who contracted the relatively mild and non-infectious disease of cowpox through handling udders of infected cows , obtained immunity from smallpox , and in 1765 the Medical Society of London received from a Dr Fewster a paper on ‘ Cow Pox and its Ability to prevent Smallpox ’ .
10 London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms , all different ; the kick was to work out how they connected , and eventually to walk through all of them .
11 Eliot continued to see the danger of London reduced to a waste land where ( with a momentary glance at Gerontion 's coughing goat ) debris lies
12 I had come down from London looking for a job .
13 More commonly , however , Calvinists viewed natural disasters as signs of divine anger , requiring appeasement through prayer and public fasting ; during the famine of 1586 , for example , the Bishop of London commented in a letter : ‘ for appeasing His wrath it is convenient that we fall to earnest repentance , prayers , fasting and other deeds of charity . ’
14 THE battle against terrorism will not see London turned into a fortress , the capital 's new police chief vowed yesterday .
15 Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work .
16 Agitated by the fear that the rebellious Irish , with their own parliament , might have allowed Ireland to be used as a back door into Britain by the acquisitive Napoleon , the government in London embarked upon a course of pressure which culminated in the felo de se of Grattan 's Parliament in the union legislation of 1800 .
17 Blatcham station never exuded sweetness and light at the best of times , but the last train from London pulled into an atmosphere of peculiarly depressing gloom and resentment : gloom of the fatigued and silent travellers , and resentment of the station staff , who evidently considered it a gross imposition that they were compelled to keep open the station until 11.20 for a handful of passengers returning from some nocturnal debauch in the metropolis .
18 IT IS almost one hundred years since the abolition of the Metropolitan Board of Works in London brought to an end a 20 year orgy of building in the Victorian capital .
19 Coe 's decision to run his first marathon at London emerged from a wager with ADT President , Michael Ashcroft , who offered to donate a substantial sum of money to charity if Coe entered the event .
20 Tonight Rebekah Ashford should be in hospital in London preparing for an operation to give her a new lease of life .
21 The latest letter-bomb attack on the Canadian High Commission in Trafalgar Square , London comes after a spate of raids in Canada in the past two years .
22 The important work of slum clearance has been virtually at a standstill since 1939 , only individual houses having been demolished , apart from an area in London intended as a showpiece for the Festival of Britain .
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