Example sentences of "had [adv] come [prep] a " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
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	I had already come across a congratulatory account of this transformation in Jules Verne .
4	‘ 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 .
5	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 .
6	Although not unexpected , his death had still come as a shock .
7	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 .
8	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 .
9	Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers .
10	Her life had simply come to a full stop .
11	But that night at the end of September which ended in revulsion and hatred so far as you were concerned had earlier come to a much more disgusting climax .
12	One person had evidently come to a decision .
13	By early 1690 such tensions had again come to a head .
14	He said he had never come across a clearer , more perfect case , with so many vital details so well remembered .

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