Example sentences of "[pers pn] come as [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life .
2 . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change .
3 They wanted it to come as a sudden surprise — jolt .
4 In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ .
5 ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’
6 Cooper said : ‘ It came as a complete bombshell .
7 Gavin , who chose The Crusades , 1095–1154 , as his final specialist subject , said : ‘ It came as a great surprise to win .
8 Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise .
9 It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other .
10 However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness .
11 It came as a great shock .
12 Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock .
13 He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin .
14 Glen Coe Still on conservation issues , it came as a pleasant surprise to many when the news leaked that the Countryside Commission for Scotland , who built and own the controversial visitors centre on National Trust for Scotland ground in Glen Coe , had recommended that the centre be moved .
15 It came as a pleasant surprise and is most gratefully received .
16 It came as a mild shock to realise that there was none .
17 But there is no masking the truth and , when Costakis learnt of this ‘ bashfulness ’ , it came as a painful blow to his self-esteem as a collector .
18 Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship .
19 It came as a considerable shock , therefore , when , on 24 January 1977 , the Chief Executive of the Mid-Glamorgan County Council received a letter from the Welsh Education Office of the DES stating the government 's intention of removing courses of teacher-training from the Polytechnic as part of the overall plan to reduce the number of teacher-training places in the Principality to 2,850 by 1981 .
20 Every time I visited him he made me polish the dust off the bottle , so it came as a huge relief when we were finally able to open it .
21 He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was .
22 Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward .
23 It came as no great surprise to discover that , in the Department 's view , the new Committee ‘ could well function within the structure of the Technician Education Council ’ .
24 Adrift in a new world of rapture , it came as the profoundest shock to Paige to feel Travis push himself up and away from her .
25 ‘ Did it come as a great surprise to you ? ’
26 Nor would it come as a total shock to discover that the world pulls out of the next slump the same way it did out of the last one , with a catastrophic world war . ’
27 Did it come as a sudden revelation and a flash of light to Brigadier Crawley , or was it that the development corporation , with its vast capital expenditure , needed a prestige project to give it credence in the eyes of the commercial world ?
28 Check if this carries VAT — it comes as a nasty shock if you are not expecting it .
29 A reassessment of his career was due and it comes as a new monograph by Tim Hilton ( £30 , Lund Humphries ) and an exhibition which opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park at the end of last month ( to 31 August ) and will be shown at The Art Warehouse in London in the autumn .
30 AS POST-DINOSAUR Jr popthrash becomes increasingly stuck in a rut of adolescent whining and indolence , it comes as a refreshing change to find a band who actually appear angry rather than mildly upset with their lot .
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