Example sentences of "who come to london " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Twenty-seven , Canadian enfant terrible who came to London five years ago for the smell and ‘ the dirt , history-dirt ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The old side was mainly teachers and medics who came to London to train . |
| 5 | Who came to London first ? |
| 6 | The only person who approached me was poor Ian Smith , who came to London but was not a representative at the talks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |