Example sentences of "come [adv] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Niki won in South Africa , Germany and Holland ; he came in second six times and beat Jody Scheckter to the championship by 17 points ; Reutemann was fourth , 30 points off the pace behind Andretti . |
| 2 | Now his voice was coming over five thousand miles of air and five hundred years of diverse progress . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The KGB owed MI6 a favour which might come in handy one day . |
| 6 | I advise you to buy it — it may come in handy one day . |
| 7 | At this time it was filled with the sort of junk that might come in handy one day if one could remember where one had put it . |
| 8 | Even the useless dowelling with a bit of tin can on the end might come in handy one day ! . |
| 9 | It 's just a hobby I really enjoy , journalism is the job I really want to do and you never know drama could come in handy one day ! |
| 10 | They get the shilling , and a golden promise , and they think they will come back alive one day . ’ |