Example sentences of "london in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill gave up his job of 20 years as a tea taster and blender , exchanging the daily ‘ trundling up to London in a bowler hat for driving about 1,000 miles each week looking for antiques with Angela ’ . |
| 2 | He scattered his clothes across West London in a variety of dustbins and builder 's skips . |
| 3 | With the help of the theatre 's drum-revolve and back projections , we are able to watch Eliza ride through London in a taxi to her slum in Drury Lane , cut with cinematic fluency to the hilarious scene in which the housekeeper Mrs Pearce forces her whimpering charge to take a bath for the first time , and enjoy the full splendour of the embassy ball , complete with marble staircases and palm court orchestra . |
| 4 | No , neither were we when we took two trips to London in a fortnight . |
| 5 | D'Arcy drove his passengers back to London in a mood of suppressed fury . |
| 6 | The din became even louder as we turned into Trinity where a gang of felons was being driven about London in a cart wearing a scrawled notice around their neck listing their offence . |
| 7 | Mr Jaggers clearly thought Joe was a fool for refusing money , and left the house , reminding me to go straight to his office in London in a week 's time . |
| 8 | It was decided to recall Blake to London in a manner that would not arouse his suspicions so a message was sent to Nicholas Elliott , chief of MI6 in Beirut , who got in touch with Blake and said that London would like to discuss a chance of promotion and a new job with him . |
| 9 | Graham Kelly , FA chief executive , yesterday morning abandoned England 's team headquarters in Santander to fly to London in a bid to sort out the crisis . |
| 10 | In the interval much had happened to Marx and he was by then an exile in London in a place and a situation where inevitably he was more remote from the centres of political action . |
| 11 | DEBBIE ADAMS had to let her East End terrace house in London in a hurry when her husband was re-located to Ireland with two months ' notice . |
| 12 | It was all part of the defence of London in an emergency . |
| 13 | ‘ Mine 's an aeroplane pilot , ’ said Tommy , ‘ he can do Teesside airport to London in an hour . ’ |
| 14 | His Royal Highness , attended by Major William McLean , returned to London in an aircraft of The Queen 's Flight . |