Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I wanted to wade around in shit I 'd go for a walk down a sewer . |
| 2 | Erm b but there was no reason why we should sit in wait in case they might go up because they might have gone down further . |
| 3 | Well , we were n't having that , so we stood around , we said ‘ Well , we thought we 'd just wait around a little bit , you know , just in case they might want to say goodbye to us . ’ |
| 4 | The way ‘ civilisations ’ had to make their mark , just in case they might disappear without trace . |
| 5 | If they want their own snappy one they would , you 're quite right , it 's not necessarily handing them the bad one on a plate just in case they might use it . |
| 6 | when you ask someone out , I 'm scared in case they might say no |
| 7 | bodies you see in case they would lift them . |
| 8 | They began following its twisting route , keeping close to the cover of the trees in case they should meet with any oncoming sect vehicle going to relieve or check up on their outside patrol . |
| 9 | I asked , stepping sideways to avoid a brace of female traffic wardens and smiling my best smile as a talisman in case they should visit Golden Square . |
| 10 | Baroness Hollis said : ‘ The government chief inspector has to warn local authorities not to tell the disabled and the frail what they are entitled to in case they should happen to ask for it , which would take the counties through their capping limit . ’ |
| 11 | Old people in particular often ensure each night before they go to bed that their house is tidy and their last instructions are by their bed in case they should die in the night and someone will have to find them in the morning . |
| 12 | Certain people , perhaps because they were friendly with one doctor but held a higher opinion of the professional ability of the other , took to carrying cards in their pockets which gave the relevant instructions in case they should find themselves too far gone to claim the doctor they wanted . |
| 13 | They did n't tell her that they wanted to see whether it was still empty , just in case they could have it for Brownie Pack Meetings . |
| 14 | erm they 're frightened to go anywhere just in case something might happen . |
| 15 | Two bands are used just in case one should break and let the beetles escape . |
| 16 | It could have turned the other way ; in case you might think this was a simple transaction — it was not . |
| 17 | She 's been fretting herself to flinders , in case you should 've changed your mind . ’ |
| 18 | He wanted it to be a surprise for you , and I 'm only telling you in advance in case — in case you should think it might have been me . " |
| 19 | ‘ Just in case you should get homesick . ’ |
| 20 | In case you 'd forgetten , this is n't the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | But when Bernard 's plan backfired I needed you alive in case you could lead me to Graham . |
| 22 | You need to know what you are suffering from in case you will have to make arrangements for a longer stay at home in bed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over . |
| 25 | Yeremi glanced at the Sergeant in case he might chastise d'Arquebus . |
| 26 | He did n't smile in case he might seem either flippant or impertinent . |
| 27 | Both girls quickly turned their faces away , just in case he would want to take revenge on them later for having witnessed his humiliation . |
| 28 | But in case he shall die in my Lifetime then I desire that my Coffin be made by his Son in like manner as his Father was to have made the same for which I Will he shall be paid the Sum of Ten Pounds and that in such Case the said Legacy of Ten Pounds so given to his father shall cease and not be paid . |
| 29 | For many years the pope kept Talbot 's apartments in the Vatican ready in case he should return . |
| 30 | More likely in case he should go along the road to ease him self on Alice Mulcahy . |