Example sentences of "but in [adj] case [pers pn] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how he worked , but in this case he could not free himself of the notion that although Francis was the victim he might not be the central figure . |
| 2 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 3 | In the second case , that where the wife agrees to become surety at the instance of her husband though she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction , her failure to do so may be the result of the husband 's actually misleading her , but in any case it could hardly ever occur without some impropriety on his part even if that impropriety consisted only in his neglect to inform her of the exact nature of that to which she is willing blindly , ignorantly or mistakenly to assent . |
| 4 | She had an idea where the first sniper had been but in any case he could have moved . |
| 5 | Leith began to recover from feeling shaken to realise that things had gone too far now for her to confess everything , but in any case she could n't do that , not when Rosemary and Travis were so insistent on secrecy . |