Example sentences of "come south " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronald Harwood 's Reflected Glory , at the Vaudeville Theatre , is the tale of two brothers from Manchester who have come south to seek their fortune . |
| 2 | He added that we must be his guests at the great banquet he was holding that night for other Scottish lords who had come south with him . |
| 3 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 4 | No doubt , it was for such men as Peter Bouverie that he felt he had been called to come south . |
| 5 | After the Irish famine more immigrants came south , and by 1851 they made up 4.6% of the population of London . |
| 6 | Indifferently as Orrell , who came south in third place and with a match in hand , played , Wasps ' victory by a try , two penalty goals and a dropped goal to a try and two penalty goals was fortuitous . |
| 7 | Nick Collins was born at Chopwell in County Durham but came south to find coalmining work in the small Kent coalfield and began playing football for the attractively named Canterbury Waverley , and it was from there that the Palace signed him , in spite of opposition from Arsenal , in late August 1934 . |
| 8 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 9 | Their two families had exchanged hospitality and traded with one another for generations , when Kalchu 's went north for its salt and his i a 's came south for grain . |
| 10 | She did n't finish her apprenticeship — I deduce that , rather than know it — sometime , it must have been in 1934 , came south , worked in Woolworths on the Edgware Road , spent the war years in Roehampton , a ward maid again , at the hospital where they mended fighter pilots ' ruined faces . |
| 11 | Mackay is a Scot who came south at the request of Mrs Thatcher following the resignation of Lord Havers due to ill health in 1987 . |
| 12 | As Nicholson went on , telling him how King Morken died and his children swore to kill Kentigern who came south to Carlisle and then — learning of the paganism of the fell people — into the heartland of the lakes where he founded many churches , established missions , stood up to his neck in Derwent Water to read the Psalms and then went down into Wales … |
| 13 | When the King 's Justices came south they would arrive with troops and issue writs raising levies from the surrounding countryside , empanel juries , collect evidence , and not move away until the matter was settled . |
| 14 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 15 | Though it hardly arose , for the boy was engrossed in his Welsh affairs , and came south as little as he could . |
| 16 | Owen Glendower , lord of Glyndyfrdwy and Cynllaith , and master of most of North Wales , came south that June into central Wales , his raiding parties materialising like shapes of flashing , thundery sunlight out of the rains and mists of the hills , and eating at the borders of the Mortimer lordships in Radnorshire . |
| 17 | Then I think it 's time I came south , maybe the Pembroke coastal path or following the Thames to the sea , ’ he said . |
| 18 | When the Scots came south , this fellow was probably in their retinue and must have searched Irvine out . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Then I came south to Royston but Queen Margaret and her party had already returned to London to collect all their possessions so I followed in hot pursuit . |
| 20 | Wendy went to Glasgow and had a direct trip ; I had to change at Rugby on the way north and at Carstairs coming south . |
| 21 | I was coming south from England ; they were returning home from a factory in Germany . |
| 22 | He had borrowed the ledger one night and read how a member of the Longford militia came galloping up on a foam-flecked horse to the doors of Carewscourt , yelling that the French and Irish had scattered Lake 's army to the four winds and that they were coming south and for everyone to flee , flee , flee if they valued their lives … . |
| 23 | Bob Spottiswood was a strong and pacy right half-back who played for his native Carlisle United before coming south to appear for Croydon Common for the 1908–09 season . |
| 24 | Thinking it safe to pull out to pass a lorry he ran head-on into Moira and the children coming south . |
| 25 | It is good , therefore , also to see that another part of the growing preservation tradition is coming south , an auction of Railwayana . |
| 26 | Wood arrived at the conclusion that the compass error they were experiencing was opposite to the error they had found coming south over the Timor Sea , and decided he had to trust Darwin 's bearings implicitly . |
| 27 | He 's coming south , he 's at Bedford . ’ |
| 28 | We shall come south as soon as possible and review the situation and you must prepare your mind for returning with us until some suitable person can be found to share Bishopstow with you . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Will Percy come south to Wales , think you , or stay on the Scottish march ? ’ |
| 30 | Art of the chilly climes comes south to the Barbican Centre London , where Border Crossings draws together works by 14 Scandinavian artists , exploring the relationship between them , and emphasising the importance of European and international influences in their work . |