Example sentences of "[noun sg] town of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet up in the Pennines , in the little former mill town of Earby on the Yorkshire- Lancashire border , there is physical evidence that such imprudent behaviour can be rewarded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Their debut British television performance recorded late last year in their home town of Seattle for The Word scored 400 complaining calls . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Pope John Paul II paid a three-day visit ( his fourth ) to Poland on Aug. 13-16 , celebrating mass in Krakow on Aug 13 and paying tribute the next day in his home town of Wadowice to the town 's pre-war Jewish community , many of whom died in the nearby concentration camp at Auschwitz . |
| 6 | Chris Peat of the group Altern-8 , who is standing in his home town of Stafford for the Altern 8-ive ( Hardcore ) Party , said : ‘ It must be an omen — I won on the Grand National with Party Politics as well . ’ |
| 7 | He sat for his home town of Stafford in the second Protectorate Parliament of 1656–8 , but is recorded as a more active speaker in the 1659 Parliament of Richard Cromwell [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | Paul Hodkinson will defend his British and European featherweight title in his home town of Kirkby against the No.1 contender , Italy 's Salvatore Bottiglieri , on December 13 . |
| 9 | Hahnemann was born in 1755 in the pottery town of Meissen on the River Elbe in the Electorate of Saxony . |
| 10 | It happened in the seaside town of Worthing on the night of 9 October 1934 . |
| 11 | On a wet January afternoon in 1986 , Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux walked around the North Down seaside town of Bangor with the local MP and Speaker of the Assembly , James Kilfedder . |
| 12 | It tells the story of Deanna and Dorothy , best pals as girls in the nondescript central belt town of Staneyburn during the Fifties , meeting again in middle age after Dorothy 's mother 's funeral . |
| 13 | The boot and shoe trade , which had become firmly established in the county town of Northampton during the Civil War , spread to Wellingborough before 1760 and soon afterwards to Earls Barton , Higham Ferrers , Irthlingborough , Raunds , Rushden and Wollaston . |
| 14 | THE SMALL market town of Holt near the north Norfolk coast was nearly all burned to the ground in just three hours in a terrible fire during the summer of 1706 . |