Example sentences of "[prep] case [pron] [noun] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this reason , I suspect that adopted children may pretend to have no interest in their origins in case their enquiries should hurt their ‘ real ’ , that is , their adoptive parents . |
| 2 | She 'd been wanting to go home all day , dragging on her teacher 's hand on the way in , looking over her shoulder just in case her mum might have popped her head round the gate for a last wave . |
| 3 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 4 | The ultimate compliment was paid Ferguson before the interval when Buchwald was told by Vogts to man-mark the awkward 21-year-old in case his threat should turn into an act of aggression that brought an equaliser . |
| 5 | Inside his head he could still hear his father 's slighting reference to a " Momma 's boy " and because this rankled more than his inability to shoot the doe , he hurried on ahead of her in case his father should turn and see them close together . |