Example sentences of "come [conj] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a very expensive clear-out and must have come as quite a shock when the penny dropped . |
| 2 | It had come as quite a surprise to discover he was charming , very generous , and enormous fun to be with . |
| 3 | Long — well , perhaps not that long-ago , in a drowsy Melbourne suburb called Surrey Hills , where Christmas came but once a year and the rest of the time there was the telly , you could say life was dull . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 8 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Still , relegation came as quite a shock to the system . |
| 11 | Communion comes but twice a year for some |
| 12 | ‘ Christmas comes but once a year . ’ |
| 13 | As Italians and many others would agree , fortunately for the figure Christmas comes but once a year ! |
| 14 | It 's not every house that has antique vases thirty feet up a wall to dust … fortunately even at Claydon House the problem comes but once a year . |
| 15 | ‘ Being reminded that she 's actually married always comes as rather a blow , ’ Luke commented , watching her go . |
| 16 | Stop-start combining , with most wheats still some way off ripening , comes as quite a change compared with the past two years . |
| 17 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 18 | ‘ The amount of studying for the exams comes as quite a shock ’ |