Example sentences of "came as a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | . However that was all changed and er that was the first thing we changed and erm then we erm , during the period we , the staff were changed , Mr and Mrs who are in charge of now , they came as a young couple to View and er I think with their coming , they had different ideas and the place did seem to change . |
| 2 | There was always too much to do and although she hated it when she came as a young bride , she had grown to love it and would defend it with her life . |
| 3 | It came as a mild shock to realise that there was none . |
| 4 | GREG MACKEY , Warrington 's Australian scrum-half who came as a two-month stop-gap but has figured prominently in the club 's unbeaten start , has agreed to spend the full season at Wilderspool , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 5 | With four children and a stable lifestyle , the break-up of the Docherty 's marriage came as a devastating blow to those closest to him . |
| 6 | The company 's 5,750 British workers had been braced for cuts all week but they still came as a devastating blow . |
| 7 | The news came as a devastating blow to her 67-year-old father , the Mossley Hill-born grandson of a Liverpool police superintendent . |
| 8 | The pregnancy came as a real surprise . |
| 9 | The pregnancy came as a real surprise . |
| 10 | ‘ The pregnancy came as a real surprise . |
| 11 | In fact , it came as a complete surprise to the hoteliers of Ramsey when they were given notice to quit their premises within six days , leaving behind ‘ all furniture , bedding , linen , cutlery , crockery and utensils ’ . |
| 12 | The news came as a complete surprise . |
| 13 | The instruction to evacuate the buildings came as a complete surprise . |
| 14 | Serfaty 's release came as a complete surprise . |
| 15 | The redundancies apparently came as a complete surprise to USL staff who were assured before Christmas that no jobs would be lost through the Novell deal . |
| 16 | Such is the standard of junior sides in this competition that the game appeared to be no more than a formality for us , so our 4–1 defeat came as a complete surprise . |
| 17 | This result came as a complete surprise to me and everyone else , and it was greeted with general disbelief . |
| 18 | The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole , at a time when global trends in ozone levels were uncertain , came as a complete surprise . |
| 19 | Her proposal of marriage came as a complete surprise as her boyfriend popped the question while they were on holiday in Spain . |
| 20 | The news came as a complete surprise to workers at the Oxfordshire base . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ The presentation came as a complete surprise . |
| 22 | ‘ Although Steven said he 'd heard arguing , I never had so it came as a complete shock . ’ |
| 23 | News of the redundancies came as a complete shock . |
| 24 | Cooper said : ‘ It came as a complete bombshell . |
| 25 | World War I , therefore , came as a terrible blow , but she persevered in keeping alive both the British section of the International Association for Labour Legislation and the World 's Labour Laws — to such effect that in February 1919 it was she who wrote the draft to the Paris commission on the basis of the International Labour Office to be established by the Versailles treaty . |
| 26 | Naturally the news came as a terrible shock to her . |
| 27 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 28 | A duck ( his third in Tests ) and 20 , and no wickets in 22 overs came as a muted farewell , even if all in attendance had Graeme Pollock 's three-hour century to remember the match by . |
| 29 | The oil price rises of October 1973 came as a serious blow to Bonn , as it did to other Western European nations . |
| 30 | Well I ca n't pretend that this doctoring business came as a total surprise . |