Example sentences of "his [noun sg] came [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His support came from a small group of household knights who were to be well rewarded for their work , but he was not indebted to any great noble for his position . |
| 2 | His father came of a well-known Sussex family , and left him a lease of Selsey prebend in his will of 15 April 1569 . |
| 3 | His father came from a long line of bone-setters in Anglesey , but by the middle of the nineteenth century medical opinion was becoming increasingly hostile to these unqualified practitioners , and Evan Thomas sent all of his five sons to study medicine at Edinburgh University . |
| 4 | Abdullah 's wife , Norjan and two daughters , were allowed to leave Iraq last month after the family was taken hostage while on a pilg pilgrimage ; she says the news of his release came as a great shock . |
| 5 | But Graham Robertson , McKenzie 's counsel , told the court yesterday that the report emphasised that his client came from a stable background in the west of Scotland and had felt lonely for the two years he had lived in Dunbar . |