Example sentences of "london [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The building provided London bases for a number of international businesses including MacQuillan 's . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It reminded me of the London tubes during an air raid . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | School 's Out With the summer degree shows just coming down , Fiona Hackney talks to London students with a view to their futures |
| 9 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 10 | Gallery 2 opened a new series of exhibitions with ‘ Under £50K ’ , works by London practices with a contract value of under £50,000 , followed by ‘ Substance ’ , work by students and lecturers at Manchester University School of Architecture . |