Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [prep] london " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 2 | Miss Outram was still at school , and the parents ' wishes had been ignored in London and Derby . |
| 3 | It was the third time in three weeks that such ugly scenes had been witnessed at London grounds . |
| 4 | On Feb. 21 Zhelev visited the grave at Whitchurch Canonicorum in Dorset of Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer who had been assassinated in London in 1978 by the Bulgarian secret police by means a poisoned umbrella tip [ see p. 32997 ] . |
| 5 | After a few months however , Mr Wilson had been recalled to London as the head of his company had been tragically killed in an automobile accident . |
| 6 | The Evangelical Alliance was founded in 1846 largely under the inspiration of a Polish Jew , Ridley Herschell , who had been converted in London and became a notable Nonconformist preacher in the capital . |
| 7 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 8 | The same typewriter had been used to address it , it bore a second class stamp and had been posted in London WC1 . |
| 9 | Consul Veitch was later removed from his post for addressing Napoleon as ‘ Your Majesty ’ instead of ‘ General ’ , as he had been instructed by London . |
| 10 | Glancing up at her uneasily and then back to the document in front of him he read that Nora Elizabeth Fanshawe , by profession a teacher , had been born in London in 1945 , had black hair , brown eyes and was five feet nine inches tall with no distinguishing marks . |
| 11 | So did that of Emanuel Shinwell , the son of a Jewish tailor of Polish origin , who had been born in London 's East End , but whose family later settled in Glasgow . |
| 12 | The census returns show that the majority of Camberwell 's population at any one time had been born in London — 65 per cent in 1861 ; 76 per cent in 1911 — but many families had moved frequently from district to district and from street to street . |
| 13 | All propaganda was seriously affected , not least the publication of its newspaper Citizen which had been launched throughout London early in 1921 . |
| 14 | After that they ignored the war and its grisly aftermath and talked about nothing very important : new books , the latest films that had been shown in London since Julia had left and about the BBC 's new Third Programme . |
| 15 | Bartram 's Observations on the Inhabitants , Climate , Soil , River , Production : from Pennsylvania to Onodaga , Oswego and the Lake Ontario had been published in London ( 1751 ) , and for the past twenty years he had dispatched his boxes of seeds and plants to be disseminated amongst owners of noteworthy gardens who acknowledged his industry . |
| 16 | She was surprised to discover in April 1742 that her ballad ‘ The Lass of the Hill ’ had been published in London . |
| 17 | When my sergeant came in to see me — when you yourself heard him — he 'd just learned that on my instructions the locker had been opened in London . |
| 18 | The car had been stolen from London … |
| 19 | Others , however , saw the N.D.D.S. in a different light and role , and soon there was internal strife within the Society which tore it asunder in 1885 after a general meeting had been held in London without Paul 's knowledge . |
| 20 | It had been alleged in London , possibly truthfully , that he had intended to make a drinking tankard of it . |
| 21 | But he specified later that the Five-Power Defence Arrangements , involving Malaysia , Singapore , the United Kingdom , Australia and New Zealand , which had been formalised in London in April 1970 were ‘ in no way incompatible with our neutralisation proposal or our non-aligned policy ’ since the Arrangements were intended for current defence needs and were entirely defensive in nature , whereas the neutralisation was a ‘ long-term solution ’ . |