Example sentences of "london [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wished he would stop talking for now he was saying , ‘ I 've been associated with Harrods of London for many years . |
| 2 | The first major survey of French art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to be shown in London for many years will open at the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery on 24 March ( to 11 July ) . |
| 3 | They had lived in London for many years and Ilsa drifted to the Polish cafes and Hungarian tea-rooms where she could talk with other emigres and drink Viennese coffee in fluted glasses . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure that you 're aware that my mother was American and that I lived in London for many years as a boy when my father was military attaché at the German Embassy . |
| 5 | He was living with her in London for some years — he said they shared a flat . |
| 6 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 7 | Mr Rose had worked for his employers , Shelley and Partners Ltd in North London for several years . |
| 8 | You said you 'd be in London for several weeks and I 'm here for a month . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You ca n't take her to London with those teeth , Mother . |
| 10 | Another plan is to help a minimum of 10 local students find a job with companies in east London before those students go on to university or a polytechnic . |
| 11 | ‘ We are nearer than Middlesbrough to London in many ways . |
| 12 | Following the outbreak of the South African war in 1899 she gave private classes in London in these languages — classes which were transferred to King 's College , London , in 1901 ; in 1910 these were formally recognized by the University of London , the first British university to promote the teaching of Bantu languages ( Swahili had been taught in Berlin since 1887 ) . |
| 13 | She heard , too , that wages had begun to climb and that a lady 's maid , such as she had been , commanded what seemed an astronomical salary — thirty guineas a year in London in some houses , twice what she had ever earned . |
| 14 | The problem , however , was that although efficiency demanded that an inspector be experienced and the commissioners , Fullerton believed , would appoint his son if they were permitted , ‘ they are actuated in all these matters by the influence of the Earle of Isla , who often fills up these employments at London without any presentments ’ . |