How To Use Londoner In A Sentence
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My disorganization was a chaotic river that I waded through every day, somehow coming out the other end dry only due to the comparatively placid pace of being a Londoner.
Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last
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The crowd is a mix between trendy hotel visitors and posh Londoners.
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Hosting on Airbnb puts money in the pockets of regular Londoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three centuries ago, Londoners flocked to the site to sup from the health-giving St Chad's Well.
10 of the best pubs in London
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Most Londoners have been in the awkward situation of having to explain to visitors from the US, that the flags aren't at half mast because someone has died, but merely to mourn the loss of our Empire.
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If a measure of devolution is good enough for the Scots, Welsh and Londoners, then it's good enough for us as well.
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These being more sophisticated times, the Londoners confine themselves to doing much the same, but in a format you'd loosely have to call post-rock.
This week's new live music
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The poll quizzed south-east Londoners on what they treasure most and least about the UK, in an attempt to find out what the UK's national treasure is.
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Nunney is within commuting distance of Bath and Bristol and within the orbit of Londoners seeking weekend retreats.
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Hosting on Airbnb puts money in the pockets of regular Londoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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But he has a couple of outstanding players under his control and they will combine with the younger starlets and a heady team unity to make the Londoners a difficult team to beat.
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It showed a milkman cheerily delivering a dozen bottles of milk to Londoners, an extra bottle stuffed in his jacket pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the Londoners are confident an improved offer of about 15m will clinch a deal.
The Sun
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Londoners are particularly open-minded and receptive.
Times, Sunday Times
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As they trample on nationalities to reproduce London and Londoners in Europe and Asia, so they fear the hostility of ideas, of poetry, of religion, -- ghosts which they cannot lay; -- and, having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters, they are tormented with fear that herein lurks a force that will sweep their system away.
English Traits (1856)
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I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
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Justice found no effectual means at his disposal for coping with what he very aptly calls the enslaved condition of Londoners, assaulted, pillaged, and plundered; unable to sleep in their own houses, or to walk the streets, or to travel in safety.
Henry Fielding: a Memoir
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And Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack.
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She's a Londoner of mixed parentage .
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His popularity was apparent early at Eton, where he was given the nickname Buck, which, as the author points out, was a common term for ‘sexually licentious Londoners’.
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Londoner Daisy hit the big time after a string of minor TV roles and a stint of modelling.
The Sun
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The Londoners were bossing proceedings from the off, albeit without finding the cutting edge that has been an intermittent problem this term.
The Sun
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It followed fine performances by the 29-year-old Londoner against West Ham and Leeds after being recalled to the side only because of the club's injury problems.
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‘THE Army and police will commandeer coaches and trains to move hundreds of thousands of Londoners out of the city in the event of a massive terrorist attack’.
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Over 60,000 Londoners are more than three months in arrears with their mortgage repayments.
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From there she found nervy roles and they found her: an explosive pro boxer in "Fighting Words," a stuttering, seizure prone South Londoner in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," and a stammering aphasic in Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind.
Meeting Her Match
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I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
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I did notice the political incorrectness of that remark (and its inexactness) but overall it was a good article in my opinion and will be welcomed by LOndoners sick of perpetual fear
Girls Like Pink ...Fact
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There is some dispute over whether this was a plague at all or an epidemic of viral hemorrhagic fever, regardless there is little argument that 100, 000 Londoners died.
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Birkin, a Londoner who has survived the Great War but is left with a stammer, a nervous twitch, and vivid nightmares, is given the summer job of uncovering a mediaeval wall-painting in the church of a small Yorkshire village.
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It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low.
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The 27-year-old Londoner was hired by Sir Alan on what she described as the businessman's
Evening Standard - Home
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True, they have not that softness of speech which is said to be possessed by Londoners, but they have plenty of grit and backbone in their characters.
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People along the Torch Relay route have extended the flame a warm welcome and the relay is proceeding successfully as planned ....... more than one thousand Londoners from all walks of life participated in the launching ceremony of the London leg of the Torch Relay.
Olympic Torch relay a great success - official
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Londoners have long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well.
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I would never believe that Londoners would pray for rain.
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In 1832 the Central Board of Health issued public advice to Londoners on how to abort the early symptoms of cholera.
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Londoners came out on to the pavement to wave and clap the marchers.
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My lust for life and overindulgence meant that I pooh-poohed the idea of taking seven days to detox - as a Londoner, I could do it in a single day.
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Critics fear the influx is distorting prices and could hinder Londoners trying to get onto the property ladder.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first group are just plain bitter and nasty, they are the ones infecting the place especially commenting on sites like the BBC and Comment is Free with complaints that Boris got in due to all the people in the suburbs who voted for him, They aren't proper Londoners, they don't have the right Postcodes, winge winge.
Archive 2008-05-01
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He found the nearest Underground station he jumped on board the subways, known to Londoners as the Tube, and stopped near the Underground map.
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In his own defence, he discloses that, though he is a Londoner to his pearly suit, he is nevertheless one-eighth Scottish on his mother's side, which doesn't even qualify him for a clan tartan.
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The 35-year-old Londoner says he intends to buy his mother a new washer-dryer with part of the prize money.
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But the Londoners are confident an improved offer of about 15m will clinch a deal.
The Sun
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The hotel is an ideal bolt-hole for Londoners.
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There were no carriages, and grass had sprung high in the streets; the houses had a desolate look; most of the shutters were closed; and there was a ghast and frightened stare in the persons I met, very different from the usual business-like demeanour of the Londoners.
The Last Man
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Londoners and tourists lining the banks and bridges were treated to the sight of a whale being shepherded along the Thames with an escort of two rescue boats close by either side.
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And having dropped four points in their previous two fixtures, the Londoners can ill afford to slip up again.
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The rises come at time when many Londoners face a pay freeze and the retail price index is running at -1.4%, and on top of a 6% increase in fares this year.
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By 1429 he had accumulated almost £130 in debts owed to fellow townsmen, other Essex men, and several Londoners; among the creditors were two fishmongers, two drapers and two ironmongers.
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Albert'slim " Parish, a fat Londoner far from home, dealt him a jack.
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Londoners under attack would come to know it as the doodlebug or buzz bomb, so called for the mechanical hum it made before dropping on its target.
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`You clearly don't appreciate the situation as a townsman... and a Londoner to boot!
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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The Londoner was paralysed and is confined to a wheelchair.
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Which I suppose is a tribute to Londoners ' resilience.
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Londoners were the shiftiest with 84 per cent saying they would keep the news from family.
The Sun
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Always the Londoner, Arnold spent most of the week living in his rooms at the top of the Middle Temple.
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It represents Londoners as brave, plucky individuals determined to carry on with their lives come what may.
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I'm a Londoner, born and bred.
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They provide over 400 hot Sunday meals for housebound Londoners with Aids-related illness.
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My lust for life and overindulgence meant that I pooh-poohed the idea of taking seven days to detox - as a Londoner, I could do it in a single day.
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The success of the first single from the album Crazy Love will doubtless be followed by more top ten hits from the pioneering west Londoner.
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Bumped into old East Londoner Peter Dyter - a second year who was the terror of Merriman new boys.
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Fierce jests about the Scotch who came to make their fortune off their richer neighbors, about their clannishness and their canniness, and their poverty and their pride, and still lower and coarser jibes about other supposed peculiarities were then still as current as the popular crows of triumph over the French and other similar antipathies; and Kirsteen's advent was attended by many comments of the kind from the sharp young Londoners to whom her accent and her slower speech, and her red hair and her ladyhood were all objects of derision.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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When they're not busy rioting, Londoners are often to be found selling drugs, wearing hoodies, taking drugs, obtaining firearms and chasing each other through one of about three photogenically claustrophobic council estates – all to a blaring grime soundtrack.
2011 in cinema: Broken Britain v animals
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The north Londoner is said to be a diabetic who wears designer gear as he hangs out at restaurants and clubs frequented by celebrities.
The Sun
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This leaves a vacuum at the centre of the nation: in a London where there are no native Londoners.
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A spokesman for the Mayor said: "Unbooked minicabs pose a serious danger to the safety of Londoners."
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The north Londoner is said to be a diabetic who wears designer gear as he hangs out at restaurants and clubs frequented by celebrities.
The Sun
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Londoners were found to value the postal service least, with just 11 per cent saying that "snail mail" was important to their business.
Computing
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His is the robust, Falstaffian humour of old England, which, I am glad to think, still exists in London and still pleases Londoners, in spite of efforts to Gallicize our entertainments and substitute obscenity and the salacious leer for honest fun and the frank roar of laughter.
Nights in London
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With gold in the individual pursuit, silver in the team pursuit and bronze in the madison relay, the gutsy Londoner became the first Briton in 40 years to win three medals at one Games.
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Moore's drawing of Londoners sheltering from the blitz in tube stations are now celebrated.
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But now this cosmopolitanism is something to celebrate, defiantly, and the people behind the Anti-Nazi League (beneath whose banners I was proud to march in the late 1970s) would be pleased to note the way that ordinary Londoners rallied around the very mixed racial bag of the victims of the 7/7 bombings, a point Bloom makes well.
Violent London: 2,000 Years of Riots, Rebels and Revolts by Clive Bloom – review
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They soon discover that not all Londoners have side partings and that litter and graffiti and distressed denim does exist in the capital.
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TheophileEscargot - to non-english ears zadie just sounds like an educated Londoner. i'm guessing the "strangulated" sound you hear is your struggle to assign a class to people whose accents have shifted. anyway listen to her talk it's really good and deals with issues like this. quote at the end pulled by andrew sullivan:
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Perhaps that's why so many Londoners hanker for life in the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Londoners at least had the decency to only field one player with a double-barrelled name, at centre.
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But for many of the bustling Londoners whom the young Tyndale met, questions of diplomacy, taxes and war were at least as pressing as those of theology or linguistics.
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The Georgian, the Londoner, the Welshman and the Middle Westerner can understand the same printed language, precisely because it does not at all represent their peculiarities of dialect.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
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For all the millions that the Londoners have splashed out, aesthetes find them a comparatively ugly side to watch.
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He is astonished by the stunted lives and anarchic behaviour of Londoners through history, never questioning why they are like this.
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He is a Londoner by origin.
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In the end it proved to be, but only after the Londoners had threatened to spoil the party and upstage the return of the prodigal son.
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Londoners tend to scurry outside at the slightest hint of sunshine, so feel free to look for a parting of the clouds and mention how lovely it is.
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A Londoner by birth and inclination, he couldn't stand ‘the barbarousness and insipid dulnesse of the Country’.
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Londoners were immovable in their determination to get to work on time.
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It's an ominous warning which gives his players an extra incentive to impress against the Londoners tonight.
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The sixth essay, titled ‘Portrait of a Londoner,’ was eventually found on the microfiche in the University of Sussex library.
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She realized, chagrined, that she had developed the Londoner's
AN OLDER WOMAN
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The purpose of his attendance at the rally was simply to threaten Londoners further.
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The first is the extent to which Londoners, by the Elizabethan period at least, were exposed to all manner of highly accessible modes of propaganda and polemic, entertainment and edification.
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The hotel is an ideal bolt-hole for Londoners.
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The north Londoner is said to be a diabetic who wears designer gear as he hangs out at restaurants and clubs frequented by celebrities.
The Sun
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They were struck by the beauty of the fires that were consuming the homes and lives of their fellow Londoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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Overeaten, overdrunken, overexcited, overextravagant, in all ways figures of incontinence, these noisy Londoners made their way homeward, pursued by the advancing gray light of a Sabbath dawn in midsummer.
The Message
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Lowther was a confirmed Londoner and absentee landlord who took a keen interest in the detailed affairs of his estate.
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What is missed by non-Londoners is that Waterloo and St Pancras may be only a few miles apart, but they are on different sides of the river.
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Boris Johnson today urged Londoners to "bombard" the website of a Tube union to persuade train drivers to call off a strike on the royal wedding day.
Evening Standard - Home
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Lowther was a confirmed Londoner and absentee landlord who took a keen interest in the detailed affairs of his estate.
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These Londoners were nuts to begin with - and they're only getting more audacious.
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Forced to play this ‘home’ fixture at Northampton, the Londoners attracted a crowd of just 3,595 and were edged out in an entertaining game by their more streetwise visitors.
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By 1429 he had accumulated almost £130 in debts owed to fellow townsmen, other Essex men, and several Londoners; among the creditors were two fishmongers, two drapers and two ironmongers.
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The Londoners on the other part, although they were brought in some feare by this sudden attempt of the enimies, yet considering with themselues, that the hazard of all the whole state of the realme was annexed to theirs, sith their citie was the chiefe and
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England
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Londoners have made a great contribution to the Games and we must recognise that with a careful and cautious approach to incidental costs.
Times, Sunday Times
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These structurally sound houses will then presumably be sold off to a private concern and souped up for sale, or demolished and replaced with luxury flats to be flogged off to rich Londoners at £250,000 a throw.
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He also shook off a clean right hook and a jarring left uppercut in a first round as the Londoner prevented the home favourite from making much of an early impression.
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The bombings took a heavy toll , killing hundreds of Londoners.
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Buoyed by two back-to-back victories, the Railwaymen will not be daunted by the prospect of challenging the Londoners, who are 14 points clear at the top of the table.
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If this survey was narrowed to look at Londoners only, the problem might become more apparent.
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‘It's an achievement to win something like this,’ said East Londoner Alan Volker whose Old English Game bantam won the best bantam on show.
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A further 25,000 people have e-mailed their photographs and messages of support to Londoners.
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I heard Maybe It's Because I'm a Londoner and Blaydon Races, neither of them sung within the quotation marks of irony.
Royal wedding then, and now
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Another Londoner made much the same point by stationing a high-tech monitor, encased in a clear plastic sphere, within a white geodesic hut.
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More than 100 years after Londoners got the Tube and Parisians a Metro, Dubliners are set to get their own underground public transport system.
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Vane to "cozen" the Scottish Presbyterian Commissioners in the phraseology of the Solemn League and Covenant; with Samuel Vassall, whose name shares with those of Hampden and Lord Say and Sele the renown of the refusal to pay ship-money, and of courting the suit which might ruin them or emancipate England; with John Venn, who, at the head of six thousand citizens, beset the House of Lords during the trial of Lord Strafford, and whom, with three other Londoners, King
Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II The Planting Of The First Colonies: 1562—1733
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Londoners have long been exemplars for the rest of us in how to face such danger from bullying cowards unflinchingly and with iron resolve.
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Londoners who each work 7.9 gratis hours extra per week - equal to £7,008 per worker over the course of a year - pull up the overall average.
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Staunch Londoners called Alf or Pearl would shake their fists at the Heinkels and shout "Give'em hell lads" to the overhead Hurricanes.
The Spirit of the Blitz
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Critics fear the influx is distorting prices and could hinder Londoners trying to get onto the property ladder.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the agreeable potation, extolled by the Londoners, as the finest water in the universe — As to the intoxicating potion, sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdashed with cyder, corn-spirit, and the juice of sloes.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Londoners and tourists stopped to watch as a flatbed truck with a police escort hauled it away to a secure location for more forensics tests.
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Her accent betrays her a Londoner.
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The bombings took a heavy toll , killing hundreds of Londoners.
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It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low.
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Perhaps it will matter less as his south Londoner metamorphosis continues.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a heartless Londoner who has to negotiate such scenarios several times a day, I remained unmoved and whilst offering an emotionless mouthed apology, I carried on my way without really looking at him.
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Most Londoners resent attempts to repair it and support the idea of reopening it.
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I write as a non-aligned Londoner who temporarily lives and works near Edinburgh, and who likes it very much.
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To bring about this sense of community, Eliot includes historical and contemporary Londoners of various social classes.
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Also Londoners have the opportunity to vote for a mayor and for members of the London Assembly.
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It had started off as a concept of Londoners sending in articles that would be published once a week, but it grew and changed into a daily newspaper, with a readership rivalling the daily tabloids.
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Alberta CrossAlberta Cross is the blues-rock quintette founded by Stockholm native Petter Ericson Stakee (vocals, guitar) and Londoner Terry Wolfers (bass) in 2005.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Rewind, Volume I
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Window shopping is set to take on a whole new meaning as Londoners are confronted with images of sex, bondage and passion as part of a series of new art installations on Charing Cross Road.
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Londoners have long been perversely proud of a health service that does not serve them well.
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Londoner Richard Tompkins worked as a petrol pump attendant before starting the stamp company in 1956.
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The Londoners were bossing proceedings from the off, albeit without finding the cutting edge that has been an intermittent problem this term.
The Sun
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The crowd is a cool mix of models, media types and funky cool Londoners.
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His directorial debut was a morale-boosting documentary about Londoners in the war.
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I write as a non-aligned Londoner who temporarily lives and works near Edinburgh, and who likes it very much.
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For this lifelong Londoner and intransigent radical, the city was always two-fold.
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She epitomises the über-influential Londoner, topping every serious ‘who to schmooze’ list and registering thousands of hits on Google.
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They were struck by the beauty of the fires that were consuming the homes and lives of their fellow Londoners.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low.
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The idea is that Londoners will be in need of a big squeeze as election fever gets worse.
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It is essential that Londoners have the same rights of access to acute health care as their provincial counterparts.
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But the Londoners are confident an improved offer of about 15m will clinch a deal.
The Sun
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Serious, perhaps, but few Londoners would argue that the newspaper is anything like what it once was.
Mr. Murdoch Goes to War
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Londoners left more than double the number of laptops in the back of taxis compared with other cities.
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The North Londoners now face an anxious wait to discover the extent of the damage and how long he will be sidelined for.
The Sun
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There is little doubt that the Londoners will wish to retain his services, but he remains open to persuasion.
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Perhaps that's why so many Londoners hanker for life in the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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The home side powered into a three-goal lead but the east Londoners struck twice in four minutes midway through the second half.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the new Justice found no effectual means at his disposal for coping with what he very aptly calls the enslaved condition of Londoners, assaulted, pillaged, and plundered; unable to sleep in their own houses, or to walk the streets, or to travel in safety.
Henry Fielding A Memoir
