Example sentences of "he come [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 Now he came to the youngest brother , who was living in a tiny hut in the forest with his young wife Militsa .
2 And he came with the highest recommendations , from Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl . ’
3 He came off the worst but I do n't know what happened to the fairy on top .
4 In fact I knew nothing of his family life — only that he came from the poorest part of the town , a row of " yards " containing tumbledown cottages , some of them evacuated because of their condition .
5 Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background .
6 Silly-Willie met her in the hall , he came from the farthest door ; his step was as fast and light as his dancing .
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