Example sentences of "to london [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NSE 's name , and livery , was chosen to give a new character and significance to the rail system in the south east , and to emphasise its unity as a system , no longer a series of independent lines owning loyalty not to London as a whole but to long-abolished independent railway companies . |
| 2 | The couple advanced their relationship when McAvennie flew to London as a member of the Scotland squad who lost to England at Wembley in 1988 . |
| 3 | In 1847 he went to London as a student at the Pharmaceutical Society , where he helped Michael Faraday [ q.v. ] with his work on gases . |
| 4 | Handsome Gilbey has known Diana since she first moved to London as a teenager . |
| 5 | The Census , which until ten years ago existed only on index cards and photographs in the Warburg 's Photographic Collection , seems to have had its origins in a project allocated by Fritz Saxl to Alfred Scharf who had come to London as a refugee from Vienna around 1935 . |
| 6 | Then in 1870 he moved to London to a post as an articled clerk , and in 1877 was appointed librarian of the Incorporated Law Society . |
| 7 | He was confined to London on a £2,000 bond . |
| 8 | Gedge was anxious to save money and went down to London on a coach to pick up the singles . |
| 9 | I was invited a year or so later to the Royal Garden Party held in honour of the Queen Mother 's eightieth birthday , so there I was off again to London with a film crew in attendance . |
| 10 | Lord George did not long remain in command of such a small vessel , however , and no sooner did he attain a more substantial command than the Duke of Montrose sent orders for the sons of the lairds of Auchenbowie and Balfunning to be sent to London with a view to joining Lord George . |
| 11 | 45104 stands ready to return to London with a football special . |
| 12 | Striking out : NALGO members opposed to the pay squeeze came to London for a rally |
| 13 | ‘ I was thinking , ’ said Rachaela , ‘ I may need to get away to London for a while , after all . ’ |
| 14 | I was merely taking her down to London for a day . |
| 15 | And Simon was invited to go down to London for a chat . |
| 16 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 17 | ‘ Gone to London for a couple of days . ’ |
| 18 | Lyn Sweeting 's daughter was due to travel from Chelmsford to London for a check up after months of chemotherapy for leukaemia . |
| 19 | ‘ A note has been left at the flat where they lived , advising friends that they have gone to London for a vacation . |
| 20 | In February of that year , Margaret came to London for a BUF meeting at the Albert Hall . |
| 21 | He telephoned a Sunday request to London for a Monday Cabinet , sent the proposals back overnight by a Foreign Office official , and left for Switzerland . |
| 22 | In March he went to London for a party at the Mermaid Tavern . |
| 23 | An incident during the life of Haymo in 1326 , explains the reason for the building of the high walls around the palace : In this year Haymo was called to London for a meeting arranged by the Archbishop of Canterbury , to try and bring about the reconciliation of the King , Edward II and his Queen . |
| 24 | The carers are now due to go to London for a meeting with North West MPs and national charities who are to give them their support . |
| 25 | And in view of the information he had when he went to London for a meeting last Wednesday and that was when he consulted with other people deciding that he should offer a nought percent increase . |
| 26 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 27 | Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent . |
| 28 | However , the whole emotive issue had been complicated by the case of a 14-year-old rape victim , whom the Dublin High Court in February sought to debar from travelling to London for an abortion . |
| 29 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 30 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |