Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She is also a singer and musician , and her talent as a pianist has often come in useful to teachers with specialist classes .
2 They had spies out , to be sure , but so far no definite reports had come in other than that Balliol and the English army , now unfortunately reinforced by the Highland and other Scots adherents , had left Perth ten days before , cavalry and foot marching southwards by Auchterarder and the Allan Water , to cross Teith by the Ford of Keir and Forth by the Fords of Frew , presumably to avoid any opposition at the vulnerable Stirling Bridge ; which conjecture had set Alexander Ramsay worrying about Doune Castle and Mariot Randolph , not to mention her brother raising his levies thereabouts .
3 He had come in barefoot .
4 One former member of the Royal Corps of Signals had been to Hong Kong preventing the ‘ illegal entry of persons ’ , which would have come in handy for protecting intruders at Goldfinger 's headquarters .
5 ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal .
6 It might have come in handy frozen , as a weapon in case Pointy-Beard and Shifty-Eyes turned up again , but then I now had Doogie on side .
7 ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’
8 The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days .
9 The van , she supposed , had come in handy there , besides giving Rose Hilaire her nightmare vision .
10 , yeah it 's come in handy to put those things right at the beginning , that 's the first thing you look at , you do it on purpose .
11 The Rolls was to come in useful when Gabrielle had an idea to get them both working .
12 Do n't forget the Survival Pack , which is bound to come in handy .
13 And both of these were to come in handy .
14 Try to come down nice and straight my K is n't very good I bet you could do a better one than that .
15 To come down easy . ’
16 I had come up real short on the gratuitous sex and violence so far .
17 Erm , Simon , there 's one that 's come up right field in the fact that we mention , I think you might have got it 'cos you 're responsible for the Q P five , which talks about interim reports , services .
18 ‘ I think you 'd better come up quick .
19 take and he used to come up pissed out of his mind at night
20 The landlord is not prepared to come up front and say that 's what he 's doing .
21 Used to come up purple as well as pink .
22 Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else .
23 By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on .
24 Like a mother scolding her lost child , I thought , after he 's come back safe : just like Perkin with Mackie .
25 I had come back blind .
26 In the first case , elitism does not provide an explanation , being merely a loose term to describe a social category about which other features rather than the elite characteristic provide what explanation there is ; in the second case , the power elite looks remarkably like a social class , and elite explanation has come back full circle to its point of departure .
27 Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed .
28 They 've come out nice have n't they ?
29 Well I 'm I went back in and it 's come out gleaming .
30 ‘ I — it 's nothing — the — the tabulation 's come out uneven — I 'll have to do it again . ’
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