Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [prep] the city " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went into Sheffield right into the city and went to a pub . |
| 2 | This one is run by a non-governmental organization , the CDA , which works with 63 such groups all over the city , promoting literacy , health and nutrition . |
| 3 | However , the Slovene authorities , anticipating the move , earlier in the day had moved the defence force command to temporary offices elsewhere in the city . |
| 4 | After fierce clashes , the protesters broke into smaller groups and there were further reports of violence elsewhere in the city late into the night . |
| 5 | McMahon robbed Speed just outside the City penalty area and a sharp counterattack ended with Quinn taking the ball wide of his marker , Whyte , and beating Lukic with a thunderous drive which went in off the underside of the crossbar . |
| 6 | What Goody and Watt have in mind , however , in citing their Greek example , is not simply the adoption of a writing system in general but the development of a particular form of writing in a particular way : ‘ in the sixth and fifth centuries BC in the city states of Greece and Ionia … there first arose a society which as a whole could justify being characterised as literate ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 7 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 8 | He says we need to get private cars out of the city centre and make it into a place which is safe for pedestrians and cyclists , not polluted and where the buildings are n't being torn apart by traffic . |
| 9 | Then , on Tuesday 22nd , a blast a Hampstead tube station disrupted late shopping , and a security alert temporarily closed a branch of Books Etc in the City of London . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , so far as policy and plan formulation is concerned , recent practice indicates a willingness to reflect both local wishes and concerns for policies elsewhere in the city . |
| 11 | The approach to the city with the scriptural shouts evidently attracted the attention of the Passover crowds already in the city , as well as the disapproval of the religious leaders of the nation , to whose critical remarks Jesus retorted : ‘ If these should be silent even the huge stones of the Temple walls would cry out . ’ |
| 12 | Over forty-five gigantic works of Social Realism have been dismantled from sites all over the city and hauled to a 1.5 hectare sculpture park on the southern outskirts of the Hungarian capital . |
| 13 | After two years he had half-a-dozen going concerns all around the city . |
| 14 | TWENTY people were shot and hacked to death in a Johannesburg township in the worst incident of violence in South Africa since August 1990 , and 10 others were killed in settlements elsewhere in the city , writes Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg . |
| 15 | And though Zurich could never be described as off the beaten track of tourism , there are plenty of quiet corners close to the city centre which are off the beaten track of Zurich itself . |
| 16 | I had traced Tunney out of the City to a big house with high broken-glass-topped walls where the rich and inebriated pay to have their vices purged . |
| 17 | Again he saw the car signalling , signalling to turn right into Via Mazzetta which was the route south out of the city . |
| 18 | And there are places all over the City . |
| 19 | WCUK Northern is now busy preparing the groundwork for the three office buildings and three storey car park which will be built at the three acre site just outside the city centre . |
| 20 | Preliminary estimates suggest that insurance claims could reach between £200 million and £300 million after taking into account the damage to buildings , the cost of reconstruction and loss of business both in the City and at Staples Corner . |
| 21 | During the weekend , the IRA shot dead one man and injured eight more in a series of attacks which the terrorists said were the opening shots in a campaign to drive drugs barons out of the city . |
| 22 | Something like : As for John 's sexual life during our years here in the city , suffice it to say that he dated a lot of nurses . |
| 23 | Very briefly I would just like to make a statement that er clearly as you 'll see from our representations er er on the on the plan submission , the City Council does support the County Council 's er approach to employment land provision both for the City of York and for Greater York . |
| 24 | His mother had said that it was all very well to mock but she had stood many long hours at auctions all over the city finding the right pieces . |
| 25 | It was revealed today that the tests included a passage by Liverpool writer Helen Forrester on a Mersey ferry trip aimed at spending a day away from the city 's ‘ heavily polluted air ’ . |
| 26 | The large numbers of evening primrose in Liverpool reflect its abundance on the sand dunes just outside the city . |
| 27 | For a regiment which has its headquarters at Edinburgh Castle and which recruits its officers largely from the city , the appointment of Rifkind , the member for Edinburgh Pentlands , will do the Royal Scots ' ( motto : No one may touch me with impunity ) case no harm at all . |
| 28 | At last we discovered the Sea Barque in a rundown market square just under the city walls . |
| 29 | Joe Soap up to the city came , |
| 30 | ‘ She will need money for a taxi back to the city . ’ |