Example sentences of "come up [prep] london " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have come up to London to see the Queen because a relative is to receive an honour . |
| 2 | The regions — they have since come up to London — were miles away from that sort of thing . |
| 3 | He was a ‘ blackshirt ’ ( fascist ) and was one of fifty who had come up from London to act as stewards . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got to come up to London to see yet another policeman , ’ Veronica explained . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 8 | I came up to London last night by the last train because I had to face a Monday morning of solid Cabinet Committees . |
| 9 | The business was able to carry on but the flat he sometimes used was uninhabitable ; he came up to London only on Tuesday nights and " camped out " for the fire-watching while for the rest of the time he commuted between London and Surrey . |
| 10 | ‘ So you came up to London when you were still a boy ? ’ |
| 11 | When Walter came up to London just before the war those were times ! |
| 12 | She came up to London once and we spent a wonderful evening at the opera and a morning in Liberty 's . |
| 13 | I said nervously ‘ Oh , I thought perhaps you would teach me Mr Samuel if I came up to London for lessons ’ . |
| 14 | Anyway he came up to London , she went to London to be a nanny to this woman with three kids like , you know , two babies and a an older one and she said he came up at a time , he said , sorry , you know , got ta finish he 's got this girl pregnant ! |
| 15 | ’ Came up from London by coach . |
| 16 | I came up from London . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I kept imagining coming up to London to see you . |
| 19 | But as I was coming up to London to work in more formal circumstances I selected my new skirt , which is somewhat smoother and less worn , together with my new pullover — oh , no , how odd , this is my old pullover — but — ah , now I remember , yes , worn over a cotton shirt — which again is something smooth . |
| 20 | Will you come up to London with me and see yourself ? ’ |
| 21 | Sometimes Elise would come up to London to spend a few days at Merrill 's flat and together they visited galleries , and saw a show . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | and if I ca n't get want I want at the Famlingham Textile Centre which is excellent when I next need fabrics I shall come up , I will come up to London and I 'll go to Libertys , but I will have measured first of all to within an inch as to what I want because |
| 24 | It would n't do any harm , either physically or financially , to have the two of them come up to London , possibly put them up for the night . |
| 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 . |
| 26 | Yeah and they 're when they come up to London they 're going |
| 27 | But it 's the fact that the guy gave erm , my friend Billy , erm , died a few years ago , erm , but they , they were like best mates and they used to ju just encourage each other to like , jump on a train and come up to London , and start going in all the hospitals and praying for the sick and things like that . |
| 28 | The familiar and approved accounts of Scottish life have long favoured a country of hills and fields and firesides , where braw lads and bonny lasses dance reels and go on , after early struggles , to better things ; where the best thing of all is the kind landed family that comes up from London to visit them , famous for its stables , castles and ceremonies . |