Example sentences of "[pos pn] local [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this year , I found myself in Exmouth , with members of my local RSPB group , boarding the Devon Princess 11 at 1pm on the last Saturday in February . |
| 2 | The charge at my local sweetshop for genuine Wall 's Cornetto and a choc ice is £1.10 . |
| 3 | I applaud the decision of my local council to install cameras around the centre . |
| 4 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 5 | My local golf club has just elected a black man to the committee , ’ he added . |
| 6 | Almost daily , my local newspaper , the South Wales Evening Post , publishes examples of what used to be called taking and driving away — joyriding . |
| 7 | At the start of my period of being harassed , I went down to my local law centre to see what help they could give me . |
| 8 | I shall not now be able to raise in the debate a subject that is of deep concern to my local education authority in west Sessex . |
| 9 | The first thing to catch my eye were the floats , and in particular the ones that suited my local river — the Trent . |
| 10 | At a recent meeting with some of my local farmers , I was most encouraged to see that they gave a far higher priority to and had a greater awareness of the need for better marketing . |
| 11 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 12 | I was recently down at my local stationers looking for the projector pens when I spotted a pack of ‘ Berol Washable Juniors ’ . |
| 13 | My local butcher 's sales of beef are down because of ‘ mad cow ’ disease , and pork because of ‘ blue ear ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope to help my local butcher in the Welsh Borders , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Many of you may have noticed that Good Housekeeping is now on sale at the checkout in Sainsbury 's , which has gone down brilliantly with shoppers , as I discovered when I visited my local London branch . |
| 16 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 17 | I saw £3 million stolen from my local authorities of Cardiff and South Glamorgan when the Government introduced retrospective legislation to change the rules that they had set and which those councils had followed carefully and obediently . |
| 18 | However , I do not want to offend my local church organist by asking her to step down . |
| 19 | I do n't have any distinct views , but my local church is doing a petition about South Africa . |
| 20 | ‘ I was given a hero 's welcome when I visited my local pub , ’ says dockworker Jimmy , 38 . |
| 21 | Bainbridge has a lovely village green which was the setting for nothing more remarkable than the fact that I arrived there one day to walk over from Bainbridge to Cam Houses with Tony and Eddie , the landlord from my local pub , only to discover that I 'd left my walking boots back at home in Dentdale and had to do the entire walk in a pair of fur-lined cowboy boots , which earned me the nickname of Roy Rogers for the rest of the week . |
| 22 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 23 | I first meet Crilly on a crowded Thursday night in my local pub . |
| 24 | This causes problems eating and drinking to the extent that I am now too embarrassed to go to restaurants , or even to my local pub . |
| 25 | It was obvious when I missed my local subway stop . |
| 26 | I now belong to my local drama group , which is great fun , and my local history group , which is fascinating . |
| 27 | I taught myself to fish the swingtip through reading Ivan 's articles , and from struggling to get a bite on my local stillwater I was able to improve until I actually won open matches there . |
| 28 | Recently my local baker told me the stoneground organic loaf I was buying would be the last . |
| 29 | By the end of the evening I certainly wished the Kings Head was my local hotel restaurant , and I 'm looking forward to dining again at the Kings Head next time I have cause to visit Richmond . |
| 30 | I have demonstrated this knitting technique at my local knitting club and now the members refer to it as the ‘ Sylvia Glenister buttonholes ’ ! |