Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have come to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton was much like the others — a rangy boy with a tuxedo in his trunk who had come to Oxford to study political science and to read all he could before starting to build a career in law and government . |
| 2 | But one proved to be the young courier who had come to Hoddom , the other his father , a magistrate of the town . |
| 3 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 4 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |
| 5 | It was not likely that a man who had come to Germany only a few weeks before would be given carte blanche to say what he liked . |
| 6 | Franz Kupka , a Czech painter who had come to Paris in 1894 or 1895 , and who lived in an adjacent studio , was also drawn into contact with the Cubists . |
| 7 | Lord ( Cyril ) Radcliffe , a brilliant barrister who had come to attention by his achievements in the wartime civil service , succeeded Waverley that year , and lasted until 1977 . |
| 8 | It was widely believed that this provision had been specifically inserted to prevent a return to office by Ríos Montt , an evangelical Protestant who had come to power in the wake of a military coup and ruled as dictator from March 1982 to August 1983 [ see pp. 31605-07 ; 32494-96 ] . |
| 9 | Whilst he remained at Allen Street he had a bedroom in the basement , Minton occupying the middle floors and the flat at the top of the house being let to Paul Danquah , the son of a Gold Coast politician who had come to England from Ghana to study law and had had an affair with a Lyons Corner House waitress , Paul 's mother . |