Example sentences of "might come in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Trouble was , Sidney decided to go back to get the sentry 's rifle , obviously thinking it might come in useful . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You never know when it might come in useful . |
| 5 | More probably it was the product of the average scientist 's well-known unwillingness to get rid of anything if he thought that it might come in useful at some time in the future . |
| 6 | Never know when the knowledge might come in useful . ’ |
| 7 | The observations might come in useful later . |
| 8 | She might come in useful . |
| 9 | You could never tell when they might come in useful . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it might come in useful , ’ Rebecca agreed . |
| 11 | When I gatecrashed your life I suppose you thought I might come in useful as some kind of antidote — but it did n't work . ’ |
| 12 | Suppose a notebook might come in useful to jot anything down or whatever . |
| 13 | Some sessions involve a heavy work-out , so a spare , dry karategi might come in handy for the second session . |
| 14 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |
| 15 | ‘ They might come in handy for making your trap , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The KGB owed MI6 a favour which might come in handy one day . |
| 17 | It could be that the acronym RICE might come in handy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's a feature that might come in handy when building an annual report : the user selects a field and chooses the added ‘ delegate ’ option from the menu , and can then send the spreadsheet to a colleague with the field highlighted and instructions to fill it in . |
| 20 | Even the useless dowelling with a bit of tin can on the end might come in handy one day ! . |
| 21 | It might come in handy again some time . " |
| 22 | ‘ Might come in handy . |
| 23 | One day it might come in handy . ’ |
| 24 | It might come in handy . |
| 25 | Might come in handy . |
| 26 | The flat was certainly unoccupied , but , equally certainly , it was not unvisited , and we had no idea who might come in next . |