Example sentences of "come in [adj] [prep] [noun] " 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 | In Argentina , he was betrayed by his car , but after a bad fright in practice at Kyalami when a wheel came off , he came in second behind Denny Hulme after race-leader Jackie Stewart lost all the oil in his gear-box . |
| 3 | She came in eighth on January 6 after encountering unfavourable winds and suffering a broken forestay — part of the rigging that holds up the mast — in common with other competitors . |
| 4 | — Pressure of the ‘ If you do n't run then you wo n't be selected again ’ variety was not very subtly exerted , so I ran , coming in third behind Donovan Reid and a Finn . |
| 5 | I think it would come in useful for people in , in all sorts of areas |
| 6 | A new injection of cash would come in handy for Quakers . |
| 7 | These substitute for open void media , and never block : besides , the water butt 's drain cock comes in handy for back-flushing . |
| 8 | It also comes in handy in cases of defiance when the child digs its heels in and says ‘ No ! ’ or ‘ Wo n't ! ’ |