Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] london [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Franzi ’ was born in London in 1913 , but was brought up from 1919 onwards in Munich , where he first experimented with photography . |
| 32 | She was born in London in 1863 , one of the eleven children of a Jewish family . |
| 33 | He was born in London in 1555 , eldest son of a Master of Trinity House , from whom he was to inherit a substantial property . |
| 34 | He was born in London in 1592 , fifth child of a prosperous East Indian merchant at whose house Hawkins , Drake and Raleigh had been visitors . |
| 35 | Margaret Loxton was born in London in 1938 and began painting in 1981 . |
| 36 | , John ( 1709–1784 ) , collector of prints and drawings , was born in London in 1709 ( he was baptized 25 August 1709 at St Lawrence Pountney ) , the eldest of the three children and only son of Sir John Barnard [ q.v. ] of Greenwood , MP for the City of London , and Jane , daughter of John Godshall , a London merchant trading with Turkey . |
| 37 | , Sarah Fyge ( 1670–1723 ) , poet , was born in London in 1670 , one of the six daughters of Thomas Fyge ( died 1706 ) , physician and city councilman who was descended from a landowning family of Winslow , Buckinghamshire , and his wife Mary Beacham ( d. 1704 ) of Seaton , Rutland . |
| 38 | Anthony Trollope was born in London in 1815 . |
| 39 | I was born in London in nineteen thirty-eight , but my father was German , my mother was English , I was actually born in the German Hospital in London . |
| 40 | ‘ It was rather more difficult when I was based in London between foreign postings . |
| 41 | G. Hare , D.S.C. , who takes up the story of the preparations : ‘ In mid April 1941 I was called to London for a secret verbal appointment and interviewed by Rear-Admiral Clement Moody , the Fifth Sea Lord ( he had been my Captain in ‘ Eagle ’ ) . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | An Israeli nuclear technician , Mordechai Vananu , who came to London and gave away details of Israel 's nuclear weapon plant at Dimona in the Negev desert , was lured from London to Rome by an attractive Mossad agent , then kidnapped , brought back to Israel and put on trial . |
| 44 | The will was proved at London on 21 August 1839 . |
| 45 | He was arrested in London on Wednesday night . |
| 46 | He was arrested in London in 1723 for seditious libel , and again in 1732 for attacks on Sir Robert Walpole ( later first Earl of Orford ) and George II in The Royal Oak Journal . |
| 47 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 48 | This report was compiled in London on Tuesday by Gerry Armitage : |
| 49 | It was overruled from London on the grounds later justified that victory would n't be a shock in the least . |
| 50 | The German blitz was resumed in the early months of this year and then a fresh terror , the " flying bombs " , was directed against London in the summer . |
| 51 | The order was placed one Thursday evening in March and was delivered in London on the Tuesday . |
| 52 | This Order gives effect to an agreement for the reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders between the UK and Eire , which agreement was signed in London on 4th December 1974 . |
| 53 | In Wensleydale , Bolton Castle looks across the broad valley to Penhill , which , legend has it , was once the haunt of a fierce giant , while the castle itself is the place where Mary Queen of Scots was placed under house arrest before she was taken to London to be executed . |
| 54 | The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied . |
| 55 | The cup , which was valued at £30 , attracted much notice and was sent to London to be presented to William IV . |
| 56 | Explaining why Mujadid , was sent to London to further his education , group chief geologist Tim Burnhill said : ‘ We are committed to enhancing and improving the technical skills of our employees , and the Imperial College course is deemed to be one of the best of its type anywhere in the world . |
| 57 | The plan was sent to London for consideration by MI6 and the CIA in December 1953 . |
| 58 | Schorne 's image at North Marston was sent to London for destruction by the commissioner to Thomas Cromwell [ q.v . ] , |
| 59 | A shipment of 2,000 lovebirds was sent to London from Tanzania , packed 80–90 to a crate , 400 birds were dead on arrival . |
| 60 | He first emerges shortly before 1665 , when he was established in London at the sign of Hermes Trismegistus , in Watling Street , as a maker of chemicals , largely medicinal . |