Example sentences of "he come of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one seemed to have realized that Charles would need an income when he came of age . |
| 2 | First , every king when he came of age had remarkably little difficulty in getting rid of the faction which had been dominant during the minority ; Albany Stewarts , Livingstones , Boyds , Douglases , the families who had enjoyed power in the minorities of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries , all lost it when the king began his personal rule . |
| 3 | Second , and even more striking , it only took the experience of one minority ( strictly speaking , in the case of James I , the absence of the king as an English prisoner ) to produce the remarkable expedient of the Act of Revocation , which every king thereafter passed when he came of age . |
| 4 | If the heir was a child , he was in wardship to the lord : the lord was his legal guardian and had control of the estates and of the person of the ward until he came of age . |
| 5 | In any case , he knew that when he came of age he would be able to obey God 's commandment to be baptised . |
| 6 | Unlike his brother Clarence , he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age . |
| 7 | His practical education was evidently gained working in his father 's business and soon after he came of age he was taken into partnership , the firm then moving to the larger settlement of Corbridge . |
| 8 | Unlike his brother Clarence , he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age . |
| 9 | For 16 months , like a prince in medieval England who succeeds to the throne before he comes of age , he was tied to a particular past and regime , hedged by his predecessor 's courtiers and advisers , living through his minority and aching to make his own mark . |
| 10 | A ( male ) adult gives his consent when he comes of age . |
| 11 | If Frederick , when he comes of age , sees that he has been deprived of the empire by the Roman Church , he will become its implacable enemy . |
| 12 | Jacklin , 48 , the former Ryder Cup player and captain , who now lives at Biggar , plans to campaign on the senior circuits of the world when he comes of age next year . |