Example sentences of "came [prep] britain [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 2 | Why , one might ask in reply , did Anderson never develop stories that engaged with just these issues , even when Joseph Losey , an American who came to Britain in the early 1950s as a refugee from the communist witch-hunts , could deal with them in an assignment for Hammer . |
| 3 | Boyd first came to Britain in the early Sixties as the organiser of one of the first package tours of blues and gospel musicians , featuring artists such as Muddy Waters and the Reverend Gary Davis . |
| 4 | When Sikh men came to Britain in the fifties it was with the hope of making some money ( usually to buy more land for the family farm ) and returning . |
| 5 | He was the son of James Six ( 1695–1743 ) and his wife Ester , daughter of Louis Ducaufour , and descended from the Huguenot refugee families who came to Britain in the sixteenth century and settled in Canterbury , where they engaged in the silk-weaving trade . |