Example sentences of "come [adv prt] handy " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal . |
3 | It might have come in handy frozen , as a weapon in case Pointy-Beard and Shifty-Eyes turned up again , but then I now had Doogie on side . |
4 | ‘ A taxi would have come in handy at the end of the night — the fields were a bit mucky . ’ |
5 | The fans would have come in handy during the humid weather over the last few days . |
6 | The van , she supposed , had come in handy there , besides giving Rose Hilaire her nightmare vision . |
7 | , yeah it 's come in handy to put those things right at the beginning , that 's the first thing you look at , you do it on purpose . |
8 | Do n't forget the Survival Pack , which is bound to come in handy . |
9 | And both of these were to come in handy . |
10 | After a ritual distribution of chocolate and biscuits — they came in handy later — we wheeled out of the Kathmandu Guest House and into the demolition derby of old Kathmandu . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Nobody would be wandering about with the sharpened shaft of a golf club , just in case it came in handy . |
13 | We should remember from Mayhew 's account that the boots also came in handy for kicking policemen and other traditional foes of the costers . |
14 | Memory came in handy too . |
15 | Gross , I know , but it came in handy . |
16 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
17 | Our newly expanded page area came in handy for the Financial Results Special — there are some big results to report . |
18 | So you see your Christmas present came in handy |
19 | Some sessions involve a heavy work-out , so a spare , dry karategi might come in handy for the second session . |
20 | I ca n't think of a single occasion in which this might come in handy . |
21 | Once the Soviet Union allowed pluralism in Eastern Europe , America was prepared to look for areas where Soviet help could come in handy . |
22 | Easily stowable silk vests and long johns also make sense in galosh-and-windchill territory , and you never know when a pair of swimming trunks will come in handy — even on business trips . |
23 | ‘ They might come in handy for making your trap , ’ he said . |
24 | In an emergency , that could come in handy for settling an attack of post-prandial mal de mer . |
25 | A few general-purpose tools will come in handy here . |
26 | The KGB owed MI6 a favour which might come in handy one day . |
27 | Uncertain how the children might react , I thought it would perhaps come in handy if I needed to defend myself . |
28 | Of course this is where a mountain bike could come in handy , but you 'd have to put up with walkers pointing at you and shouting ‘ tosser ’ , and landowners chasing after you with a stick as another slice of expensive path slides into the burn after being cut neatly away by fat tyres . |
29 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
30 | 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 . |