Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] town of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first novel , Necropolis , which is set in my home town of Glasgow , will be published this May . |
| 2 | ‘ In my home town of Nottingham disabled drivers can drive to a car park and hire one of about 25 electric wheelchairs which they then use to go shopping . ’ |
| 3 | I was invited to give an entertainment at the Bristol Old Vic theatre , the wonderful old Theatre Royal , the oldest extant theatre still being used in the country and one of the oldest in the world , a very beautiful place erm and I was asked if I would do an entertainment that I have called Come for the Ride which I was persuaded to concoct by my home town of Birkenhead in the North West of England . |
| 4 | Candidate Kay Kirkham 's aides admitted their vote had collapsed in her home town of Thornaby and neighbouring Ingleby Barwick . |
| 5 | Legend has it that Sarah Helen was put to death in her home town of Blackburn for practising witchcraft , locked alive inside a lead coffin . |
| 6 | Miss Hobson , who was born in South Africa , had been trained to use guns in her home town of Johannesburg . |
| 7 | TWO-YEAR-OLD Nicola Brady was today recovering from a serious attack by a stray dog near her home town of Monaghan . |
| 8 | Mary Hope-Sykes is celebrating her 90th year by having the same number of saplings planted in her home town of Kirkbymoorside , North Yorkshire . |
| 9 | Back in her home town of Leeds she patronized the local cinema which alternated art and porno movies . |
| 10 | One evening , she made a rare outing to the local discotheque in her home town of Dusseldorf . |
| 11 | Twelve years later her fundraising efforts have pulled in more than three hundred thousand pounds for disabled people in her home town of Newent in Gloucestershire . |
| 12 | The paintings , which were enchanting , were scenes around Venice , Tuscany , including her home town of Porto Ercole ; the French countryside , and some Italian palaces . |
| 13 | More used to venues like Wembley Stadium , tonight EMF were at the Dean Snooker Club in their home town of Cinderford . |
| 14 | MCDEVITT STREET Bovis are building a reputation in the healthcare sector , having recently won a US$30 million contract in their home town of Charlotte , North Carolina . |
| 15 | Their debut British television performance recorded late last year in their home town of Seattle for The Word scored 400 complaining calls . |
| 16 | Mrs Frizzell had no need to remind her that her neat , conforming sons-in-law were far more popular in their home town of Tollemarche than Mrs Stych 's own son , Hank . |
| 17 | The four men want to open a much needed bakery in their home town of Marghita in Romania . |
| 18 | Stockton Twinning Association needs new blood to extend the town 's hand of friendship to its twin town of Asnieres-sur-Seine , on the northern outskirts of Paris . |
| 19 | 7 weeks ago , a fight with two men and a teenage girl in his home town of Banbury , allegedly ended with him being run over and dragged under a car for a quarter of a mile . |
| 20 | The author has previously written similar books about Middlesbrough and his home town of Stockton . |
| 21 | On Jan. 16 he return from exile , addressing a rally in his home town of Zugdidi and calling for civil war on the " junta " and for the creation of a Megrel-Abkhazian republic in the west . |
| 22 | This afternoon , in his home town of Vicenza , the 22-year-old Baggio will win his sixth Italy cap when he lines up to face Algeria in a game which Italy 's manager , Azeglio Vicini , hopes to use as valuable preparation for next Wednesday 's Wembley confrontation with England . |
| 23 | He had first installed conductors on the roofs and spires of tall buildings in his home town of Philadelphia . |
| 24 | In 1948 down on the River Thames in his home town of Henley he was preparing to race in an Olympic final . |
| 25 | Triple X-rated comedian Kevin ‘ Bloody ’ Wilson , who started performing in football club smokos in his home town of Kalgoorlie five years ago , returns on Thursday . |
| 26 | During his three years at University College , London , he got work each Christmas with the post office in his home town of Woking : ‘ When I was coming to the end of my university period I sat a civil service examination with possible jobs at the end which included income tax , the secret service and the post office which involved travelling as a management trainee . |
| 27 | When Bashir Gemayel 's own baby daughter was killed in a car bomb attempt on his life in east Beirut , Suleiman Franjieh , who was now secluded in his home town of Zghorta under the protection of his Marada ( Giants ) militia , could scarcely suppress his satisfaction . |
| 28 | The fourth centenary of the birth of the great seventeenth-century printmaker and draughtsman Jacques Callot was celebrated in his home town of Nancy earlier this year while a selection of his prints was also shown at the National Gallery of Washington . |
| 29 | At 91 years of age , has just taken up painting water colours and choir singing at a local day centre in his home town of Hull . |
| 30 | Another airport rally is planned for Denver , Colorado , at 5am and then it is back to his home town of Little Rock , Arkansas , to vote . |