Example sentences of "[vb past] come as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 2 | Her death had come as a great shock to him . |
| 3 | This was where his grandfather had come as a young man , to worship and to be at peace with himself . |
| 4 | His success had come as a complete surprise to him . |
| 5 | It had been clear that Artai 's decision to name Jehan as a member of the embassy had come as a complete surprise . |
| 6 | The marriage had come as a complete shock even to Eliot 's closest friends , such as Emily Hale and Mary Trevelyan . |
| 7 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |