Example sentences of "might come in useful " 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 . |