Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [prep] london [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 ? ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 McFarlane had come back from London in December 1985 disgusted with the bartering , repelled by Ghorbanifar and wanting to abandon the operation .
6 THE STORY GOES LIKE this : a young man of 31 called Gary Humphreys from came down to London on June 1 , last year .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Laura came down from London on the long-distance bus .
10 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 !
11 One couple came down from London to the art gallery and have seen some very interesting works .
12 I said nervously ‘ Oh , I thought perhaps you would teach me Mr Samuel if I came up to London for lessons ’ .
13 Came up from London by coach .
14 They made the changeover and came back into London on a District Line train from Richmond .
15 He came back to London on Boxing Day evening , but the vicarage party went to the theatre that night and asked Ianthe Broome to join them .
16 The son of an Australian physicist , he was born in London but made his name initially in several Australian movies and came back to London in 1949 as a protégé of Laurence Olivier .
17 This changed when Baldwin came back to London in October .
18 I came back to London before the actual signing of the agreement because I had to attend an Arts Council meeting .
19 ‘ I mean , we took her in when she came back from London with her tail between her legs , and we fed her and gave her a roof over her head , but she was forever dolling herself up and going out .
20 Alison had rung to say that she was coming up to London for an appointment and could they lunch at a restaurant to which they had both occasionally gone when working at Brentwoods , if they happened to be feeling affluent .
21 Since coming back to London on his £10 a week contract he had teamed up again with Stanley Baker and they had gone on the rampage .
22 Hazel did not come down to London for the weekend .
23 Will you come up to London with me and see yourself ? ’
24 There was a possibility that a recording of his might be used as theme music for a commercial — if he could come up to London in the near future this could be discussed .
25 ‘ I know I should n't have minded , you 've a right to your own life , it 's just that — well , you never come up to London in the evenings , you 're always too busy .
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