Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] england [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many other mills connected with the woollen industry , their history is inextricably linked with that of the families of Flemish weavers who , following religious persecution , fled to England during the 15th and 16th centuries . |
| 2 | Thousands of Huguenots fled to England from the persecution which followed . |
| 3 | On August 13th 1925 , I sailed from England on the good ship Sophocles , bound for Sydney via the Cape . |
| 4 | We know much more than anyone could possibly want to know about Bill and Hillary 's sex life er than we do er about prospects for economic recovery and this has happened to successive American presidents and it happens in part because in the U S the president and his family , and it has been a his so far , the president and his family take the part , not only the part played in England by the prime minister , but also the part played by the monarchy . |
| 5 | The early Christian influence came from England from the tenth century onwards and its principal centre was at Uppsala . |
| 6 | Karate came to England via the work and expertise of an unsung innovator named Vernon Bell , who can truly be called the father of English karate . |
| 7 | The son came to England for the first time in 1922 as a Rhodes scholar . |
| 8 | ‘ He came to England with the conqueror , ’ says Hutchins in his History of Dorset , ‘ with a retinue of forty seven knights of note . |
| 9 | The mother was far from satisfied with this approach and she was cross during the course of the hearing , I am told , and evidently decided to take the law in her own hands and on 3 July she came to England with the child and she has been here ever since . |
| 10 | I believe that was the reason she came to England with the Wingfields . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Elfriede came to England at the age of three and stayed with the Lewis family in Newport , Monmouthshire . |
| 13 | He came to England at the age of three , when his father received a London posting . |
| 14 | For example , the account of Cnut 's visit to Sherborne in Goscelin 's Life of St Wulfsige is very likely based on Sherborne tradition , as Goscelin , a monk of St Omer , came to England at the invitation of Bishop Hermann of Sherborne , probably spent time in the community there , and was writing at Hermann 's request . |
| 15 | When Robertson Nicoll came to England in the 1880s he went to Dawlish where he complained : ‘ Dissent here is nowhere … |
| 16 | He came to England in the service of some young travellers , and shortly afterwards became the page of the Duke of Richmond . |
| 17 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 18 | He arrived in England in the autumn of 1968 aboard the USS United States of America , along with 32 clean-cut American youths who had formed the Sailing Party of that year 's Rhodes Scholars . |
| 19 | The Eliots returned to England at the end of November , and as a precaution against catching bronchitis he was taking antibiotics . |
| 20 | She returned to England on the death of her Father ; she did not attend the funeral ( in a picturesque little English church ) , but did become his literary editor and published the first and most authoritative biography . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that Nicholl returned to England with the Regiment on 3 August 1824 . |
| 22 | Ill health forced her abroad in 1885 and she returned to England to the Trafalgar Square riots of 1886 . |
| 23 | Some histories say he returned to England during the Great War , but most comment that he spent the war years in Australia and New Zealand before returning to Surrey in 1919 . |
| 24 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 25 | He returned to England in the latter half of June and hardly had time to catch up with outstanding work before going into hospital in July to undergo the postponed operation upon his hernia . |
| 26 | When he returned to England in the middle of December , the winter again affected him ; he contracted bronchitis ten days after his arrival and suffered a further three attacks during January 1951 . |
| 27 | Edward returned to England in the following spring with Burgundian support and defeated first Warwick at the battle of Barnet and then the Lancastrian army at Tewkesbury . |
| 28 | The Letter is clearly concerned to give a favourable impression , but the situation was presumably fairly stable when Cnut returned to England in the spring of 1020 . |
| 29 | He first exhibited in England at the Royal Manchester Institution in 1853 and in London in February 1854 at the British Institution . |
| 30 | The dating of years from the Incarnation of Jesus Christ — AD1 — started in England in the eighth century quite informally , and then spread throughout the countries of Western Europe with the exception of the Iberian peninsula , where a quite different system against a base of 1 January 38BC prevailed for a number of centuries . |