Example sentences of "he [vb past] come [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes and he 's very , very difficult to feed himself , to get the food in because , you know , he liked to come in a half past ten and bully me to cook things for him that 's why sometimes I used to run up to bed and pretend I was asleep . |
| 2 | This was a clear breach of the understanding on which he had come on a joint mission to the pope . |
| 3 | He had come into an open place . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
| 5 | He had come from a miserable place . |