Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
| 3 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's not mentioned anywhere I think it ought to come up first in Q P9 does n't it ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 10 | The reflectors , the mean here is at thirteen the average is thirteen they 're all slightly higher , so eighteen to twenty would be a very strong whereas the others have just come out fifteen to seventeen which is strong , you 've actually come out fairly strong there , because the highest score for anything is twenty . |
| 11 | For front projection , the projector is still threaded up reversing left and right , as in rear projection ( it is put in the ‘ wrong ’ way round in order to come out correct in the final composite ) ; but instead of being behind a translucent screen it s in front of , and to one side of , a glass beaded screen which reflects nearly 100 per cent of the light falling on it but on y in the direction from which it came Though the projector is at 90° to the camera-screen axis and its beam is therefore initially parallel to the plane of the screen , passing in front of the actors in the foreground this beam is deflected by a half-silvered mirror at an angle of 45° to the beam This semi-transparent mirror is coated at the front ( unlike normal mirrors , coated behind the glass ) with a very thin layer of aluminium — silver tarnishes too easily Alternatively , the layer of aluminium may be spattered on , so that tiny reflective spots of metal are interspersed with tiny transparent gaps So , although it reflects the beam , the camera can photograph both the action and the reflection from the screen through the mirror Though the mirror reflects the still or moving image from the projector on to the actors and any foreground props or sets as well as on to the screen , the level of illumination of the image is much less than that on the actors , so the camera records only that part of the image reflected from the screen . |
| 12 | I part company with the Committee in a small way on its comment that those developments would have come about irrespective of our privatisation proposals . |
| 13 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 14 | But when I got back to work the people that was in the observation post on the factory , they saw this aircraft , it came down low over the King George 's playing fields and they could see the markings on it and they 'd sounded the alarm but but course the aircraft went straight over . |
| 15 | Later other improvements came along such as putting a cylinder of safety glass around the flame to improve the illumination , and covering the gauze by a metal bonnet to protect it from accidental damage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The experience came in useful for another role right — as a makeup girl . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ As it happened , that very year , for the first time , a computer won a tournament : a program developed by North-western University came in first in the Class B section of the Paul Masson American Chess Championship . |
| 20 | A houseman came in first in a pure white coat , |
| 21 | I drew Lewis in the second round and came in second behind him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Cesar Gaviria , the candidate of the ruling Liberal Party , won forty seven per cent of the vote ; the right wing National Salvation Movement had twenty four per cent and the former left wing guerrilla group M-nineteen , came in third with thirteen per cent . |
| 24 | The horse came in sixth in a field of 11 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The brave duo 's bid ended at Orrell but Rice did well to finish the stage in 10th place but Lotz came in 78th on the stage at 13 mins 25 secs . |
| 27 | Damon Hill , whose father Graham won five Monaco Grands Prix , came in fourth with 1:21.825 in a Williams-Renault . |
| 28 | There was one occasion when the addled eggs came in handy for pelting a kid on a motorbike who 'd been riding up and down outside our house all evening and making a terrible noise . |
| 29 | We should remember from Mayhew 's account that the boots also came in handy for kicking policemen and other traditional foes of the costers . |
| 30 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |