Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] london " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | I wo n't be the only person from East Anglian that 's come down to London over the weekend to shop , to stay with relatives or friends and take advantage of London 's shopping . |
| 5 | I had come down from London looking for a job . |
| 6 | He was glad of the distraction , having earlier received a wire from Hilary who , at the last minute and in spite of cross-my-heart-and-hope-to-die promises , found it impossible , after all , to come down from London for the first night of Peter Pan . |
| 7 | The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it . |
| 8 | They have come up to London to see the Queen because a relative is to receive an honour . |
| 9 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 10 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got to come up to London to see yet another policeman , ’ Veronica explained . |
| 13 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 14 | McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation . |
| 15 | It never stopped raining , and the plague began to come back into London . |
| 16 | To get experience in obstetrics and gynaecology for vocational training I had to come back to London . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's going to come back to London . |
| 18 | My parents were quite happy to come back to London and stay with me instead ! |
| 19 | It may mean a 5 a.m. start from the country if she is to have her regular swim before going into the office , but if she is going to see WHS in Swindon or Heathcote in Warwick , it is more convenient for her to stay in Gloucestershire than to come back to London . |
| 20 | White duly came down to London from his home in Wolverhampton — he is the senior member of a remarkable quartet of Elvis Gordon , Dennis Stewart and the banned Kerrith Brown who have all won medals at world level , yet all train in the back room of an Edwardian bath house . |
| 21 | ‘ When I came down to London , I finally got myself a decent bass , a Fender Mustang , then started changing pickups to get a raunchier , more distorted sound . |
| 22 | THE STORY GOES LIKE this : a young man of 31 called Gary Humphreys from came down to London on June 1 , last year . |
| 23 | I was wanted so I ran away again and came down to London . |
| 24 | The chamber of commerce , the local authority , the trade unions and the Members of Parliament came down to London to see the Secretary of State . |
| 25 | When a deputation of framework knitters from the east Midlands came down to London in 1812 to lobby in support of a bill to regulate the hosiery trade , they had no difficulty in making contact with trade unionists . |
| 26 | Laura came down from London on the long-distance bus . |
| 27 | Ben Jonson came down from London , and cried in the church . |
| 28 | In my case the question of chaperonage came up with regard to the O. U. D. S. At that time all the women 's parts in the O. U. D. S. plays were taken by professional actresses who came down from London for the rehearsals and performances — and very glamorous they were too — Peggy Ashcroft among them ! |
| 29 | One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works . |
| 30 | A report , too , came through from London that the cabinet had decided to arrest the strike leaders and to place the region under martial law . |