Example sentences of "[vb past] as [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , the first word Mungo had ever heard him utter , other than the mysterious ‘ lymenner ’ , came as rather a shock , as though a pillar-box had suddenly spoken . |
| 2 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 3 | The body is made from a single piece of mahogany , which came as quite a surprise , because at a casual glance you 'd think it was ash . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 5 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 6 | I can promise you that the total came as quite a shock to me , I was convinced it would be well in excess of my budget . |
| 7 | Still , relegation came as quite a shock to the system . |
| 8 | Giving in to the inevitable , and until she had found out the truth she had as yet no quarrel with his mother , Ellie relaxed her rigid stance . |
| 9 | But the letter to Ritschl ( if we take it at face value , as we presumably should ) shows that Nietzsche had as yet no thought of basing a book on these subjects , although something pertinent to " Greek music drama " or " Socrates and tragedy " would , no doubt have been among the various matters envisaged for the miscellany in the " literary history or the " new ideas and views " . |
| 10 | Turning back to the local rag he learned that the police had as yet no clue to the identity of the woman whose body had been fished out of the canal . |