Example sentences of "came to england " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I have in common with the Kurd is green eyes , the fact that he came to England at the same time as I did — and that he too looks like a refugee from a Verdi opera . |
| 2 | He came to England as a Rhodes Scholar in 1958 , and after a year of teaching at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore he returned to Oxford for three years in the early 1960s as research fellow and junior dean at St John 's College . |
| 3 | Since I came to England it has got much less . |
| 4 | When Rouse came to England his favourite playing partner was Stan Tracey . |
| 5 | Chandra came to England in 1955 . |
| 6 | Bowling resembles a number of older artists in the exhibition in that he came to England ( from Guyana , in his case ) to be an artist , had some success , then moved to and fro between London and New York when his public career went downhill in the Sixties . |
| 7 | ‘ He came to England with the conqueror , ’ says Hutchins in his History of Dorset , ‘ with a retinue of forty seven knights of note . |
| 8 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 9 | David Wright was born in South Africa in 1920 and came to England as a teenager . |
| 10 | He had no problems in stocking these from the Far East , India or the Cape with help from Dutch merchant-ship captains , but he wanted to obtain those North American novelties which he knew to be flourishing at Chelsea , so in July 1736 Linnaeus came to England with a letter of introduction from Boerhaave to Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 11 | As a schoolmaster , however , he was not very successful , even when he came to England in 1876 , but as an apprentice pastor , he achieved some success . |
| 12 | Compulsory education came to England and Wales in 1870 , and was generally implemented by 1880 ( by local by-laws ) . |
| 13 | He came to England in the service of some young travellers , and shortly afterwards became the page of the Duke of Richmond . |
| 14 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 15 | Christianity came to England up a river , when St Augustine and his forty monks travelled to Canterbury up the Kentish Stour , ‘ singing all the way ’ . |
| 16 | Dicey described how , when ‘ Voltaire came to England — and Voltaire represented the feeling of his age — his predominant sentiment clearly was that he had passed out of the realm of despotism to a land where the laws might be harsh , but where men were ruled by law and not by caprice ’ ( Dicey , 1959 : 189–90 ) . |
| 17 | John told Myfanwy Piper , after he came to England , that the successes of his puppet repertory had been a version of The Little Mermaid , performed to Ravel 's Introduction and Allegro for harp , strings and wind ; a dance for three ballet girls on one string to music from The Nutcracker ; and a series of adventures for two invented characters , a small boy named Pee Wee and his aunt , Anunziata . |
| 18 | While the ships were in port , word came to England that Spanish ships had fired on English ships at San Juan de Ulloa . |
| 19 | Arthur and Peggy married later and came to England , living near Box Hill , Surrey . |
| 20 | A very famous Yoga teacher from India came to England and , after observing many Yoga classes , asked the instructor why it was that he did not first teach his students to sit , stand and walk with balance and coordination before teaching them the more complicated postures . |
| 21 | Elfriede came to England at the age of three and stayed with the Lewis family in Newport , Monmouthshire . |
| 22 | Lottie and Freddie Freedman , a young married couple , came to England with a Kindertransport from Berlin via Hamburg in 1939 . |
| 23 | When she came to England , aged five , Hannah was described as a bright if naughty child . |
| 24 | Born in 1936 , he came to England three years later , followed shortly afterwards by his mother . |
| 25 | He came to England aged ten years old and at seventeen was taking his higher school certificate in physics and hoping to study medicine as a Major scholar at King 's College . |
| 26 | Herbert Gale came to England in December 1938 , at the age of fifteen . |
| 27 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 28 | ‘ But for the first time since I came to England in August 1977 , I 'll be hoping Liverpool do n't win again . |
| 29 | I came to England — Ipswich — to study for the social workers ' qualification , a CQSW in Community Work , believing that I could work with women in the ways I wanted , provided I had the necessary qualifications . |
| 30 | Some alien imports are quickly acclimatised into artistic traditions that last for decades or centuries , and nobody bothers if most of Shakespeare 's sources were continental , if porcelain came to England from China by way of Saxony , or if almost all the literary kinds the English tradition has excelled in , excepting only the detective story , have been borrowed from abroad . |