Example sentences of "come [adv prt] [adj] [prep] " 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 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The experience came in useful for another role right — as a makeup girl . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We should remember from Mayhew 's account that the boots also came in handy for kicking policemen and other traditional foes of the costers . |
| 15 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 16 | Our newly expanded page area came in handy for the Financial Results Special — there are some big results to report . |
| 17 | He thought he 'd got too much club for his second shot on the 17th , and he did n't hit it all that hard — a 5-iron — so he came up short of the green , after being in the left-hand semi-rough . |
| 18 | ‘ Came up positive on cocaine . |
| 19 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Went up there the following day and they came back armed with all sorts of things — knives and cudgels — and they went up there and a real fight developed . |
| 21 | They knew she took bread to her mother , jam she had made from the blackcurrants at the foot of the garden but the basket always came back heavy with fresh eggs , a bunch of carrots from the bog , plums that they loved , sweet hard yellow apples . |
| 22 | In the morning Kāli took the cattle out to graze , but after a couple of hours she came back soaked to the skin . |
| 23 | Hoomey came back white as a sheet , speechless . |
| 24 | ‘ They came back loaded with stuff . |
| 25 | They came back full of glee , raving about it and making me quite jealous and determined to ascend the peak a.s.a.p. , which I did — and they were right . |
| 26 | Next , three young ladies went in together , and came back full of praise for the gipsy 's skill . |
| 27 | Caroline Stuart Taylor came back full of the joys of midwinter from her heliskiing trip to Gudauri |
| 28 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 29 | The Easter egg , overcome by heat , too much food , and an excess of wine , had to go and stand outside the door for a little fresh air , but came back full of verve and ready to tackle some of Willi 's bonbons that were scattered about the room in dishes in case anyone felt the need of more to eat . |
| 30 | ‘ 'E came out loaded up wiv old iron . |