The phrase "a general comes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to the arrival or presence of a general, typically in a military or narrative setting.
Example: "As the battle raged on, a general comes to rally the troops and boost their morale."
Alternatives: "a general arrives" or "a general appears".
Mr. Sisi, then a general, came to power in 2013 after he led a military takeover that ousted the democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, after a mass uprising.
Three days before invading Iraq, amid a big display of helicopters and jets, a general came to talk to Lampe's unit -- the invasion of Iraq was about to begin.
"Every time a new general comes, they call us to a meeting and say the same things," he said after conferring Saturday with the latest high-ranking visitor, Gen. John P. Abizaid, commander of American forces in the Middle East.
"It stays with me, and in this opera the first thing that happens is that an Egyptian general comes in with Pompey's head.
Learning here, in general, comes from a much more organic, community-centered place than the institution of grades and standardized tests I am used to.
A short while later, a staff general came to the village where we were in a civilian car.
When a relative who is a former general came to see her at the military hospital, he told her, "You have shamed all the family.
The story goes that a US general came into the Pentagon one day with a copy of this book, slapped it down on the table and said "Build me this!" And we have built it.
Mr. Canavan, a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who retired from the Army as a lieutenant general, came to the aviation agency after serving as chief of staff for the United States European Command, in Stuttgart, Germany.
Once, a Thai general came to our house.
