Example sentences of "come in [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 | ‘ You 'd better come in first , ’ Reid motioned to him , and with a wave to the others announced , ‘ This is Doctor Masters , our new doctor . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had come in barefoot . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 9 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 10 | The van , she supposed , had come in handy there , besides giving Rose Hilaire her nightmare vision . |
| 11 | , 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 . |
| 12 | Phil : When the paediatrician come in next morning , I mean he only was in there two seconds , he looked her up and said ‘ Typical mongol ’ , either ‘ Typical mongol features ’ or ‘ Typical mongol face ’ , it was one of the two he said , and I could have killed him … |
| 13 | Mm it seems though it 's funny not come in next , last week did n't it ? |
| 14 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 15 | Jim competes as a veteran in Nordic events in Scotland and still manages to come in 3rd or 4th overall . |
| 16 | ‘ Some people just can not bear to come in second , ’ he said loudly enough to be heard before getting into the car , reversing it round and driving away . |
| 17 | The Rolls was to come in useful when Gabrielle had an idea to get them both working . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't know if I was meant to come in last week or not . ’ |
| 19 | Tell the girls I want you to come in next Friday morning . |
| 20 | Right , do you want to come in next week ? |
| 21 | Do n't forget the Survival Pack , which is bound to come in handy . |
| 22 | And both of these were to come in handy . |
| 23 | Langhorne was it just then , and the race was won by one A. J. Foyt , not by Mario , who came in ninth in his Windmill Truckers Special : for $637 , to be split with the owners , and with hands like hamburgers . |
| 24 | On one of these occasions , one of Gina 's old friends came in useful . |
| 25 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 26 | Eagle came in useful only once . |
| 27 | The experience came in useful for another role right — as a makeup girl . |
| 28 | The good old television recording once again came in useful as a reminder of the true reality when it clearly showed a presentable handover of the garment . |
| 29 | During the past few months the change to End Product Duty has made Stretton a Customs & Excise Bond , and Albany 's extensive experience in bonded warehouse operations came in useful . |
| 30 | Normally , Pooley was concerned to hide his upper-class origins from the general public as well as from his police confrères , but occasionally Eton came in useful when he wanted to discomfit a member of the public who was treating him like PC Plod . |