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 | ‘ 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 | His Auntie ( Mothers sister ) lived most of her life in Harwell village , having come down this way to do domestic service . |
| 16 | Should n't 've come down this way . |
| 17 | The widely reported price differential between US and European software packages , has come down some , Gates said , but will continue to exist , while diminishing further . |
| 18 | It has to be said that when Dustin has co-starred in a movie with as big a star as he — McQueen , Redford , Beatty or Connery — he has come off second best . |
| 19 | I had come up real short on the gratuitous sex and violence so far . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 22 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 23 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 24 | ‘ I think you 'd better come up quick . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Like a mother scolding her lost child , I thought , after he 's come back safe : just like Perkin with Mackie . |
| 28 | I had come back blind . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |