Example sentences of "london [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Islington is a multi-ethnic , inner city London borough with a child population of 29,000 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Before Thursday , Labour held only three seats outside London south of a line from the Wash to the Bristol Channel . |
| 5 | After returning to Britain in 1988 , Elizabeth got a job with the exclusive magazine London Portrait as an advertising and promotions manager . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The house was occupied as the London residence of an art dealer . |
| 9 | Croydon Corporation to build a new sub-station in Tennison Road , Norwood , and lease part of it to London Transport at a peppercorn rent . |
| 10 | Elena would regard anything called the Central London Polytechnic as an institution of the same rank , and therefore worthy of her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It will loiter in the London area for a week before heading for the rest of Britain . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | At the end of February , he was admitted to the London Clinic for an operation to remove piles . |
| 19 | If you have a London theatre with a gap left in the November schedule , phone Laura Thompson on 01-969 6524 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It came after I saw a priest in a London restaurant with a louche young man . |
| 22 | All in all , a nostalgic look back at London Airport at a time when airliners had their own individual characters . |
| 23 | It was just one of those things that happened to even the nicest people , and the sensible thing to do about it was pay £25 and turn up at a London hotel for a glass of sherry and an implicit promise of no humiliation if things did n't work out . |
| 24 | It is possible the discovery could be part of Middle Eastern terrorism — two months ago a terrorist was blown up by his own bomb in a London hotel in an incident later linked to the Satanic Verses affair . |
| 25 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 26 | Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 – 9 ) concluded on the basis of London English/Creole switching data which they studied , that there was a tendency for speakers to use a switch from Creole to London English within a turn " to change from the main theme of the conversation to some kind of subroutine or secondary material : a check on shared information , a search for a missing name or date , a comment indicating how the adjacent material should be interpreted . " |
| 27 | Furthermore , when Creole is used by the younger generation , it is almost always used in conjunction with London English in a code switching mode . |
| 28 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 29 | They included the pop singer Lyn Paul , best known as a former member of the New Seekers , dancer Jane Summerhayes , who appeared on the London stage in A Chorus Line , his secretary Jo-Anne Robinson , another dancer , who was in the musical Billy with him , and dancer Jane Watts , who appeared in Barnum . |
| 30 | The 17th century Lambeth plate , which was held together by glue and string , was bought by a London dealer at a Sheffield auction . |