Example sentences of "come [adv prt] useful " 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 | The Rolls was to come in useful when Gabrielle had an idea to get them both working . |
| 3 | On one of these occasions , one of Gina 's old friends came in useful . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | Eagle came in useful only once . |
| 6 | The experience came in useful for another role right — as a makeup girl . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Our expertise in laboratory equipment , industrial chemistry and engineering came in useful , ’ said Courtaulds Research Fellow . |
| 11 | But that came in useful . |
| 12 | All my specialist knowledge , all that accumulated wisdom of the ages , would surely come in useful to someone . |
| 13 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 14 | If it was an animal charity the Bob Martin 's would come in useful . |
| 15 | He did n't really approve of women earning a living , but the extra income would come in useful . |
| 16 | ‘ When you grow up all this practice will come in useful . ’ |
| 17 | Nowadays the buildings were filled with furniture awaiting repair , lawn-mowers , deck chairs , tea chests full of bottling equipment or archaic kitchen utensils which ‘ might come in useful one day ’ , two deep freezers and a decrepit tricycle and a rocking horse , the property of Paul Young , their only child . |
| 18 | Trouble was , Sidney decided to go back to get the sentry 's rifle , obviously thinking it might come in useful . |
| 19 | Its abolition was recommended as long ago as 1967 but nothing has been done — one suspects a feeling that it might come in useful one day . |
| 20 | Fixed to your garden shed roof , or a convenient post , they 'll come in useful when those cold north winds blow in the autumn or spring , and you need to rush out and protect your tender plantings . |
| 21 | The following will all come in useful but with experience you may find alternatives that suit you better . |
| 22 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 23 | It would come in useful . |
| 24 | I thought that anyway it would always come in useful . |
| 25 | Thank you very much for asking so many questions , thank you for all the words at the end , they 'll come in useful . |
| 26 | You never know when it might come in useful . |
| 27 | More probably it was the product of the average scientist 's well-known unwillingness to get rid of anything if he thought that it might come in useful at some time in the future . |
| 28 | Never know when the knowledge might come in useful . ’ |
| 29 | The observations might come in useful later . |
| 30 | Sparkle 's recessed transom should come in useful while cruising |