Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] london " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 2 | And now you 've come down to London with no accommodation apart from that grotty little hotel , and signed a lease on a shop you 've never seen before , with no independent survey , no up-to-date trading figures and no solicitor to check the terms of the agreement ? ’ |
| 3 | She had moved down to London and lived in squats . |
| 4 | Some months later , when she judged that things would have quietened down , she had come down to London and had set about re-establishing her business . |
| 5 | Stan Charlton joined Crystal Palace FC from Exeter City in the summer of 1928 , linking up again with his former manager at St James Park , Fred Maven , who had moved up to London from Devon in November 1927 . |
| 6 | Stephen Gardiner , who was Secretary to King Henry VIII , and Edward Foxe , the King 's Almoner , lodged there in attendance on the King , who had moved out of London . |
| 7 | Nick was walking in the garden with his father-in-law , a tall , lean , bald-headed Scot who had flown down to London for a couple of days and come out to see his daughter between one business appointment and another . |
| 8 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 9 | Ibn Fayoud looked at the place settings , noting that the few racing contacts he had been obliged to invite had sensibly been distributed among the more amusing people who had come up from London . |
| 10 | Now then er regular listeners will know that over the last couple of years or so we 've done some special listener trips for you er and we 've gone down to London . |
| 11 | In the interests of discretion — Leo was always discreet — they had driven out of London to Faringdon . |
| 12 | From an early age , his mother and father showed him the illustrated books on the subject which they had brought back from London , and described at length the wonders of the ballets they had seen danced there by the Diaghilev company , ‘ when they were young and in love ’ , as John put it later . |
| 13 | They have come up to London to see the Queen because a relative is to receive an honour . |
| 14 | She 'd assumed he 'd driven back to London , but maybe he had n't . |
| 15 | He had n't got a job yet but he had gone up to London every day this week and come home in a jolly mood . |
| 16 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |
| 17 | Later we learned that he had gone back to London and given a mischievous account of our conversation in literary circles , and we were ‘ very much blamed ’ . |
| 18 | He related how he had come down to London and systematically searched through the various agencies that might have employed Elsie , how he had tracked down Mrs Wilson and had gone to see her . |
| 19 | He 's gone up to London . |
| 20 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |