Example sentences of "london [vb past] [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 | GOLD bullion closed up a dollar in London helped by a pause in the dollar 's advance with an absence of fresh news . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | THE battle against terrorism will not see London turned into a fortress , the capital 's new police chief vowed yesterday . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |