Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are so often fastened by those who , in the name of love , secure our chains daily in case we have any notions of escape . |
| 2 | She stopped abruptly , suddenly afraid to say the words aloud in case they were words he would n't want to hear . |
| 3 | You 're better keeping the card just in case you break down . |
| 4 | Well the paper must be out of date because I think I got that stamp months ago in fact you bought it back from Switzerland . |
| 5 | Ignoring , for the present , the body forces , consider any area S in the body with normal n , and let Q be a point on S. Then in statics it is shown that any system of forces acting on a body can be reduced to the sum of a force F , say , and a couple G acting at the point Q. In the limit of infinitesimal area the ratio F/S tends to a limit — , the traction at Q , while in classical elasticity the ratio G/S is supposed to vanish . |
| 6 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 7 | Happily there was some friendly cloud ; this time I went right through it to regain some horizontal reference , then bob in and out of the cloud until Jock had repaired the damage , I stayed near the cloud base just in case we were jumped again . |
| 8 | Well , we 're not supposed to start till five past , so let's give them a couple more minutes just in case they 're caught in the lift or something . |
| 9 | Always say to yourself , ‘ I will select a field just in case I do n't find lift . ’ |
| 10 | They say the servants prepare food and set his table every day in each of these houses just in case he arrives . |
| 11 | When a particularly difficult and obscure accident occurs , the aircraft manufacturer may suspect the possibility of the failure of a particular component , and acting in a responsible manner and with the highest possible motives may circulate to all operators of that type of aircraft a design for modifying the component just in case it was the one that failed . |
| 12 | When summer comes and I finally have to reluctantly discard my thermals , I knit myself a few cardigans just in case it is not hot enough for me — and come to think of it , our weather is hardly ever hot enough for me . |
| 13 | If I were you , though , I 'd get straight on home just in case he comes back . |
| 14 | Thick eyeliner on the top of my eyes , I do n't wear eyeliner on the bottom just in case you think I 'm a tart ! |
| 15 | I 've already earmarked the cage drilling machine just in case we did require it , to make sure that no parts were taken off it to support the next one . |
| 16 | If Adam had not issued from his hiding-place early in May they would not have been discovered ; but the messages which had come from Llewelyn were grave enough to warrant a risk which by then appeared so slight . |
| 17 | In total you can not actually pay more than fifteen percent of salary to erm these well to contributions so in effect you you 're already paying six percent as your basic contribution so the maximum you could pay on any of these schemes is a further nine percent . |
| 18 | He had two spare hats in his room just in case he ever lost his usual one , or somebody stole it . |
| 19 | I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next fish . |
| 20 | I said she , she might well come back to you I said she 's tried to keep you on a string just in case she did n't land the next dish he looked horrified , you know , as far as he 's concerned its all love and glamour . |
| 21 | ‘ And Kate , the vacancy is now filled , but perhaps you 'd better take names and addresses of any applicants just in case they 're needed later . ’ |
| 22 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 23 | Two days later in Paris he was charged with criminal association and arms offences . |
| 24 | ( Funnily enough , years later in France I saw in the Orange branch of the Credit Agricole exactly the same slogan used to advertise personal loans . ) |
| 25 | Though her lungs were aflame with her efforts , she rolled over and set off into the darkness of the tunnel that led outside before anyone could think to send a boat for her — though at least there were hiding places here in case they did . |
| 26 | And er the it was a sort of for , I remember erm only a few years ago in Harlow we had a discussion group there was somebody there and I I think I 've still got the piece about that . |
| 27 | For several years here in Edinburgh you have been the presbytery 's World Mission and Unity convenor and then you became the convenor of the Board 's local involvement committee which links our congregations to people who work overseas in churches there with whom they serve . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've kept the florist here in case you wanted to talk to him . |
| 29 | Although Donleavy had told him to stay clear of American officials overseas in case they were under surveillance by foreign intelligence agencies , Coleman assumed that Sasser had cleared the meeting with Control and drove up from Larnaca to keep the appointment , expecting to be briefed on some unexpected emergency . |
| 30 | The actual vicar was er it was high , a high church , Father and then there was er he was a vicar and he used to live in the vicarage which is higher up than the church at the back of the church Street , and there was Father , he used to run the Boy Scouts troop , and there were , I believe there were , there was two curates , I , I think the other one was named , but in those days either in Street I think it was in Street there was er two or three Sisters of Mercy that used to live down there , and they used to , cos being high church they were able to go , they did n't do any preaching or anything like that but they did parish work around the parish you know , they used to , they used to call them Sisters of Mercy . |