Example sentences of "[noun sg] in case [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She crept stealthily along the gallery , not daring to put on a light in case she should wake Luke , past his room , feeling carefully in the half-darkness . |
| 2 | He was so frightened he would n't let the driver go across a green light in case he hit Red and the twins coming the other way . ’ |
| 3 | Her own preference was for retracing Maurice 's route at first light in case he had suffered a breakdown or been involved in an accident . |
| 4 | I did not switch on the light in case it should dazzle her . |
| 5 | He probably tried the door to the house , found that unlocked as well and picked up the hammer in case he was disturbed . ’ |
| 6 | I do n't want to bump too hard against the plane 's fuselage in case we do actually come into contact with it . |
| 7 | I think you 'd better take your Scots Park jumper and your red cardigan in case you manage to spill |
| 8 | Donna dared not settle herself too comfortably into her seat in case she dozed off . |
| 9 | I allowed Thursday as my backstop in case I have n't got my eleven . |
| 10 | He 's out of his mind in case you 've had an accident or something , but he could n't come after you because he was due back at the hospital for a clinic . ’ |
| 11 | The unpredictability of being on duty , the anxiety arising out of being unsure whether anything substantial is going to happen and being in a constant state of readiness in case it does , is one of the stresses associated with duty periods and referral and investigative work generally . |
| 12 | This can actually produce those distressing occasions when , for example , a husband and wife are sitting there looking at each other , the dying one trying very hard to get on and die because they understand everyone is waiting for them to do so , and the survivor trapped with their feelings of guilt about wishing their relative would die , whilst at the same time not being able to leave the person 's side in case they miss the moment . |
| 13 | Plum cake and cheese and a mug of strong , black tea in case you were still falling apart . |
| 14 | An emergency dental treatment kit from Dentanurse UK Ltd ( £8.80 including p&p ) , which includes a sterile needle to fit any syringe in case you need urgent dental treatment |
| 15 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 16 | Some golfers are afraid to transfer the weight in case they can not get back to the ball at impact . |
| 17 | My children do n't like me going out after dark in case I get stabbed again . |
| 18 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 19 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 20 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 21 | Well they broke off in wear and when you was overhauling a machine you 'd throw these springs in the tin in case you ever wanted one . |
| 22 | He slapped her , swiftly and casually , his hand coming back to cover her mouth in case she might cry out . |
| 23 | Ashcroft , one of the brightest young middle distance runners in Britain , had the injection in case she is selected for the World Junior Championships in Seoul in September . |
| 24 | Trent considered showing one of them how to keep the bows of the Zodiac to the wind in case he had to cast them off but Louis was beside him . |
| 25 | A metre and a half of copper wire with wooden handgrips at each end went in his pocket plus a box of bullets for his Walther in case he should be able to reclaim it from the masthead . |
| 26 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
| 27 | I 've had some armchairs brought in and put there at the window in case you want to talk to people more informally than around the table . ’ |
| 28 | I do that but curtain across the window in case you get what is it . |
| 29 | She did n't dare raise her head to look through the window in case she was spotted , but at least from here she could make a fair guess at where Adam and the stranger were located in the room . |
| 30 | I was in a panic in case he did . |