Example sentences of "in handy for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should remember from Mayhew 's account that the boots also came in handy for kicking policemen and other traditional foes of the costers . |
| 2 | In an emergency , that could come in handy for settling an attack of post-prandial mal de mer . |
| 3 | ‘ They might come in handy for making your trap , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |