Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] come [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If men trained in the learned profession did not , perhaps , scale such heights in the later sixteenth century , at the same time the crossing of career lines did not come to a halt . |
| 2 | This did not come as a surprise . |
| 3 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 4 | A spokesman said : ‘ Because of the current economic climate it did not come as a shock . |
| 5 | He did not come from a showbusiness family . |
| 6 | Unlike the founders of the older firms , Reynolds did not come from a management consultancy background ; after his early financial services work , he spent three years with William H. Clark , a headhunter from the price Waterhouse fold . |
| 7 | It was a very neatly packaged piece of disinformation planted on Pincher that carried added credibility since it did not come from a government source but from an opposition Privy Councillor . |
| 8 | The bolt of lightning did not come until a week later . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't come for a confession ! |
| 10 | But it was a bit of a coincidence when she walked out that day and er she did n't come for a week ! |
| 11 | But for many workers the move did n't come as a surprise . |
| 12 | You may cut a fine figure — ’ with an approving glance cast up and down his great-nephew 's fashionably tight-fitting blue coat over buckskins and top-boots ‘ — but an expensive young profligate is what you are , Dacre , and if this inheritance do n't come as a windfall you may call me a dunderhead ! ’ |
| 13 | They react to them in that way because automatically some of them do n't come from a background in which they grew up with father figures and another thing is they ca n't live up to the expectations of a lot of black women , so it makes them feel lesser . |
| 14 | As a consequence , evolution normally does not come to a halt , but constantly ‘ tracks ’ the changing environment . |
| 15 | It does not come for a couple of times . |
| 16 | It seems a pity that the gun does not come with a reflector nozzle ( to work near window panes without cracking the glass , for example ) , but this is only a minor point . |
| 17 | Given the importance of this area of Russia in the Civil War and the Polish campaign , the Party 's care for and vigilance over the army does not come as a surprise ; nor does the considerable military presence in 1922 in civilian organizations like the hospital and the automobile workshop . |
| 18 | The fact that her husband was having a homosexual relationship does not come as a surprise but it is more difficult for Blanche to accept because he needed help but she caused his death by saying that he ‘ disgusted ’ her . |
| 19 | Strictly speaking the extreme ultraviolet light does not come from a laser , but it does retain the coherence of the original . |
| 20 | As a Chinese proverb has it , ‘ ivory does not come from a rat 's mouth ’ . |
| 21 | He does n't come with a lot pious platitudes and and charming words to make us feel better . |
| 22 | But he added : ‘ The fact that Mr McNeill has said this does n't come as a surprise to me . |
| 23 | ‘ And she does n't come from a fishing family herself . |