Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] useful " 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 Rolls was to come in useful when Gabrielle had an idea to get them both working . |
| 3 | This will also bring in useful revenue to promote the railway . |
| 4 | On one of these occasions , one of Gina 's old friends came in useful . |
| 5 | In due course , she entered government as the wife of the President of the Board of Trade in the first Labour administration ( where her social background came in useful advising less elegantly born wives on ‘ clothes and curtseys ’ when visiting the Palace ) . |
| 6 | Eagle came in useful only once . |
| 7 | The experience came in useful for another role right — as a makeup girl . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | During the past few months the change to End Product Duty has made Stretton a Customs & Excise Bond , and Albany 's extensive experience in bonded warehouse operations came in useful . |
| 10 | Normally , Pooley was concerned to hide his upper-class origins from the general public as well as from his police confrères , but occasionally Eton came in useful when he wanted to discomfit a member of the public who was treating him like PC Plod . |
| 11 | ‘ Our expertise in laboratory equipment , industrial chemistry and engineering came in useful , ’ said Courtaulds Research Fellow . |
| 12 | But that came in useful . |
| 13 | Free tea , coffee and biscuits were on offer and , as well the opportunity to pick up useful leaflets and booklets , visitors could consult stallholders . |
| 14 | In this sense , the Panopticon was , as Foucault ( 1979 p 149 ) identified , a building whose design was simultaneously architectural , functional and hierarchical , and whose purposes were ( p 143 ) : " to establish presences and absences , to know where and how to locate individuals , to set up useful communications , to interrupt others , to be able at each moment to supervise the conduct of each individual , to assess it , to judge it , to calculate its qualities or merits . |
| 15 | This is , after all , how we all gain knowledge and pick up useful tips . |
| 16 | Come and talk to experts on food preparation and hygiene and pick up useful leaflets from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food . |
| 17 | One of the interesting things that I do is go every so often and talk to groups of British civil servants who are going to spend some of them a week some of them up to six weeks on an exchange visit erm with the French civil service , in an attempt to learn a certain amount erm about how the system works , both so that they will be able to understand more easily when it comes to joint erm ventures , joint matters , joint policies , what the other side is doing and the pressures within which it 's operating , and also so that sometimes they may be able to learn things , and pick up useful tips and hints about the way to handle a particular problem . |
| 18 | Clearly these regulations were meant to confine carried-out timber to that fit only for firewood , but in 1792 complaints were still being made of enormous losses of timber through yard workers , who even finished work early to allow themselves time to saw up useful lengths , which they sold at a shilling each . |
| 19 | In this fun competition from Guinness Original and DIY , you can test your d-i-y skills , pass on useful tips that can win you £100 , and have a chance to win a dream holiday for two to the Caribbean worth up to £3,500 , with another £500 spending money . |
| 20 | Even where it was possible to draw up useful statistics , local officials were reluctant to forward information which might increase the demands made upon them by their superiors in St Petersburg . |
| 21 | But it worked perfectly , returning 3,000 pieces of information per second and even sending back useful information about the van Allen belts . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , working class women could still filter out useful information from a visit to a School for Mothers , and as the local authorities increasingly came to take over the Schools and Babies ' Welcomes and turn them into infant welfare centres , so they became more acceptable to working class women . |
| 23 | All my specialist knowledge , all that accumulated wisdom of the ages , would surely come in useful to someone . |
| 24 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 25 | If it was an animal charity the Bob Martin 's would come in useful . |
| 26 | He did n't really approve of women earning a living , but the extra income would come in useful . |
| 27 | ‘ When you grow up all this practice will come in useful . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Trouble was , Sidney decided to go back to get the sentry 's rifle , obviously thinking it might come in useful . |
| 30 | 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 . |