Example sentences of "come in [adj] [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The KGB owed MI6 a favour which might come in handy one day . |
| 4 | I advise you to buy it — it may come in handy one day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Even the useless dowelling with a bit of tin can on the end might come in handy one day ! . |
| 7 | It 's just a hobby I really enjoy , journalism is the job I really want to do and you never know drama could come in handy one day ! |
| 8 | This was one of the unwelcome chores , but it would come in handy this time because the wireless agent had his business in the village of Stone which was a couple of miles beyond Ham where Julie lived . |
| 9 | Could come in handy next time your parents talk to your teacher about you . |
| 10 | It also comes in handy little pots , so you do n't have to waste half of it . |