Example sentences of "case he [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's enough , ’ she whispered , looking away from his intense stare in case he read the truth in her eyes and recoiled from it . |
| 2 | Nevertheless it was as an outwardly devoted wife that she took charge of Darnley 's transfer from Glasgow to Edinburgh , where she lodged him not in Holyrood , in case he infected the infant prince , but in a house belonging to the Canon of Holyrood . |
| 3 | From the tool case he took the scalpel he had already used to persuade the terrorist . |
| 4 | From the case he took the flat , near-square , velvet-wrapped package and handed it to Quinn . |
| 5 | It seemed he had left in the Casa Guidi a gun of which he was fond , taking only his hunting rifle in case he had the chance to go into the country to shoot rabbits . |
| 6 | Maud too saw him as a type ; in her case he represented the restriction and boredom of countless childhood country weekends of shooting and tramping and sporting conversation . |