Example sentences of "who [vb past] to london " in BNC.
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| 1 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 2 | The firm was founded by Etienne de Tessier , a Huguenot who moved to London in 1712 , and whose grandson probably bought from French Revolutionary emigrés . |
| 3 | This was certainly the case with Mrs S. , the mother of one of my teenage informants , born in rural Jamaica about 1930 , who moved to London about 1960 : I 've never work — I 've never really work when I was back in de West Indies my husband work , I worked when I came over here and I [ took a long time ] to get a job — because I could remember work at de Post Office and I when I pronounce my words you know too [ soft ] dey say dey do n't hunderstand — according to dem dey do n't hunderstand me , my haccent maybe it 's my haccent or what dey don " understan " it or ting an " I feel like I 'm speakin " the same English like over here . |
| 4 | A spectacular dropped goal from 45 yards by Davies took Wasps to the narrowest of victories over title-chasing Orrell , who came to London in third place and with a match in hand . |
| 5 | An Israeli nuclear technician , Mordechai Vananu , who came to London and gave away details of Israel 's nuclear weapon plant at Dimona in the Negev desert , was lured from London to Rome by an attractive Mossad agent , then kidnapped , brought back to Israel and put on trial . |
| 6 | Twenty-seven , Canadian enfant terrible who came to London five years ago for the smell and ‘ the dirt , history-dirt ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ The old side was mainly teachers and medics who came to London to train . |
| 8 | Who came to London first ? |
| 9 | The only person who approached me was poor Ian Smith , who came to London but was not a representative at the talks . |
| 10 | He was descended from a Flemish family , who came to London as merchants in the reign of Charles I and settled at Northwick in Gloucestershire . |
| 11 | We learn from a visit Emilia made to Simon Forman [ q.v. ] , astrologer , in 1597 , that she had been a favourite at the court of Elizabeth , had become mistress of Henry Carey , first Baron Hunsdon [ q.v. ] , and had been ‘ maintained in great pomp ’ until 1592 , when , becoming pregnant , she was married to Captain Alphonso Lanier , of the other leading family of court musicians , the Laniers , who came to London from Rouen in 1561 . |
| 12 | The Caribbeans who came to London in the main waves of migration in the 1950s and early 1960s were not on the whole from the lowest social classes , although " the employment made available to West Indians was mainly menial and often of lower status than the jobs they had left behind them in the West Indies " ( Dalphinis 1991 : 46 ) . |
| 13 | Moses had three sons : Abraham , who returned to London in 1252 or early 1253 but died in 1255 ; Isaac , who converted to Christianity in 1253 after being accused of coin-clipping ; and Eliab ( Jurnet ) , who was also dead by 1255 . |
| 14 | For the Scarlet Woman he had Pamela Chrimes , who went to London soon afterwards and was a dancer good enough to be engaged before long as a soloist in the new Sadler 's Wells Theatre Ballet . |
| 15 | Mother 's success was due in some part to her brother , my uncle , Charles Chipchase , who went to London in the 1920s and got into conversation with a newspaper reporter . |
| 16 | The eve of the second anniversary of Maxwell 's death could n't have come at a more crucial time for the pensioners who travelled to London today . |
| 17 | A HARD-UP Middlesbrough man who travelled to London in search of work but ended up plastering sex-for-sale stickers in the capital 's call-boxes to raise some quick cash , was going straight back to his parents as soon as he could , Marylebone Magistreates Court heard . |
| 18 | The Darlington College of Technology part-time student won a regional heat to be one of 12 finalists who travelled to London last week . |