Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] come [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , that was when it had all come to a head .
2 Just as they approached the doors , he stopped as if he had suddenly come to a decision .
3 ‘ Yes and no , ’ mumbled Hyacinth , to whom the news of the arrest and incarceration of the chairman of the YCs had just come as a surprise .
4 Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning .
5 A spokesman for the DTI acknowledged that the department had been broadly aware of the situation at Leyland-DAF in September but insisted that news of the receivership had still come as a surprise .
6 Although not unexpected , his death had still come as a shock .
7 Looking up at the sky , at the myriad pinpricks of light , it seemed to him that he could feel the turning earth beneath his feet and that time had mysteriously come to a stop , fusing into one moment the past , the present and the future ; the ruined abbey , the obstinately enduring artefacts of the last war , the crumbling cliff defences , the windmill and the power station .
8 One person had evidently come to a decision .
9 By early 1690 such tensions had again come to a head .
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