Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the east [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 .
2 He was listed as Edwin Kell , boarder , aged fifteen in the 1881 Pocklington census , but when the family moved from the East Riding to Easingwold about 1888 he was passed off as George and Mary 's eldest son .
3 They moved from the East End of London to Woodford Green in Essex , where she concentrated on her writing .
4 The most desirable form of employment for many Scots in the eighteenth century was that provided by the East India Company , and a politician with access to this commodity was normally a man of strong interest in his region .
5 He was then known as Mick Misell , came from the East End , and bristled when an officer , asking Burton if he was going to be an actor , was rebuffed by the reply , ‘ Probably not , sir .
6 His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty .
7 A man inspecting the crosses around the regimental emblems outside Westminster Abbey lived in the East End during the Blitz .
8 Stuart Trower rode in the East Grinstead T.C. hilly 25-mile cycle time trial .
9 The tribunal was told that , following a review , the company decided to make redundant 16 drivers at the quarries it operated in the East Midlands .
10 Typically , the Birmingham man 's interest in writing for television coincided with the East Anglia one 's .
11 At midnight , in old dirty clothes , he left the house again and went to the East End of London .
12 It was one of a series of works by Corne commissioned by the East India Marine Society , the parent organisation of the Peabody Museum of Salem , which later formed the basis of the museum 's maritime interests .
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