Example sentences of "[verb] come to england " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has come to England immediately by ship . |
| 2 | Sophie had promised to come to England , even to stay in Yorkshire , but she knew they would not . |
| 3 | She felt this even more strongly when the news began to come to England of the concentration camps that were discovered when the troops swept through Germany . |
| 4 | I expressed a desire to enter the religious life and decided to come to England . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , all I could see were violet eyes and a wide smile , and , after a few weeks of being slowly driven to distraction by your lovely ghost following me around , I decided to come to England . |
| 6 | She then trained at the Medau School under the talented Irmela Doebner and some months after qualifying decided to come to England , and with the help of a postgraduate at Cambridge arranged to give a display at Newham College . |
| 7 | The family appear to have come to England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth when several glassmakers from Lorraine were invited to practise their skills in this country . |
| 8 | Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert . |
| 9 | Even as a harmonica player he had to come to England to get work . |
| 10 | The 21-year-old McCracken , who makes his debut in tomorrow 's home game with Wakefield , said : ‘ I 've come to England with a bit of a reputation but I want to put all that behind me and get on with playing rugby and improving my game . |
| 11 | They had come to England during the eighteenth century through the southwestern ports and an English breed society was formed in 1884 . |
| 12 | He believed the Druids had come to England as part of an ‘ oriental colony ’ of Phoenicians of Abraham 's religion , whose leader was the Tyrian Hercules . |
| 13 | She was only half Indian , her mother being a Viennese woman who had come to England as an au pair and married a doctor from Darjeeling , a surgical registrar in a Bradford hospital . |
| 14 | Many Irish women , including myself , who had come to England for the first time were truly shocked by the levels of anti-Irish racism directed at us . |
| 15 | Behind this superficial and meaningless acknowledgment lay the galling assumption that Irish women had come to England to learn about ‘ real ’ feminism . |
| 16 | Oxford Crown Court heard how Antony Bourgois , 20 , of Boulogne , had come to England , intending to kill himself . |
| 17 | By 1252 he had come to England , married Maud de Lacy , and as co-heir to the Lacy inheritance received some of their Irish lands . |
| 18 | In October 1279 , Edward I wrote to Philip III informing him that Jean de Prie , the French king 's knight , had come to England and , hearing of a tournament there , had hastened towards it ‘ as a knight should ’ although a tournament ban had been proclaimed by Philip . |
| 19 | She had come to England from Berlin in the 1930s and had begun her studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 20 | Whilst he remained at Allen Street he had a bedroom in the basement , Minton occupying the middle floors and the flat at the top of the house being let to Paul Danquah , the son of a Gold Coast politician who had come to England from Ghana to study law and had had an affair with a Lyons Corner House waitress , Paul 's mother . |
| 21 | In 1853 Mrs Reid gave hospitality to Harriet Beecher Stowe , who had come to England to speak about slavery at private gatherings of women , and in 1860 she shared her home with Sarah Redmond , the first black woman to undertake a public lecture tour in Britain on the slavery question , who later studied at Bedford College . |
| 22 | He turned round and drove slowly back , past the abandoned Hoverport , the replica of the longboat in which the Saxons had come to England and the monument where St. Augustine had first set foot in Thanet . |
| 23 | ‘ If you had come to England as I thought you would have done , ’ she interrupted frostily . |
| 24 | I had n't been planning to come to England , but I wanted to meet you . |
| 25 | I … we wanted to come to England , and tell you about it there , but now we ca n't . |
| 26 | How would I know this Marie Savigny was secretly a member of the de Montfort coven , who wanted to come to England to plot mischief , perhaps even murder ? |
| 27 | The community we serve is largely made up of families who have come to England from a rural district of Bangladesh called Sylhet . |