Example sentences of "in any case [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return . |
| 2 | A very tiny handful of totally unrepresentative films achieved a certain notoriety but were in general lost sight of as attention focused on better films and in any case they were to represent a dead-end rather than a way forward . |
| 3 | In any case they were quite clear where their own priorities lay : |
| 4 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 5 | In any case they were told that the count was waiting and the waiter indicated the man who stood in the shadows at the other side of the foyer . |
| 6 | It is not important to be concerned with the historical veracity of these statements ( for in any case they were often added to , touched up and re-interpreted ) but with the impact that they had . |
| 7 | In any case they were sitting upstairs in Willi 's little loggia ( the gallery of the Spa Rooms had not lent itself to conversion into boxes , but parts of the curved balcony had been sectioned off with wrought-iron grills into small loggias for distinguished guests ) . |
| 8 | He seemed to have changed his mind with suspicious ease , and in any case she was not at all used to this kind of treatment . |
| 9 | Maggie 's outrage at this callous remark was somewhat offset by the fact that he had rescued her , and in any case she was moving off to Ana who was sitting looking very shaky . |
| 10 | Workwise , the day was already a write-off and in any case she was eager to know what the girl had to say . |
| 11 | Already his fingers were itching for a pencil , though he was n't allowed to draw yet , and in any case he was n't well enough . |
| 12 | He and Dinah together could make books that would be widely read in scholarly circles ; he would achieve recognition of a sort he had never had before ; in America they would know of no disgrace about him , and in any case he was now married . |
| 13 | In any case he was not sure that he was interested . |
| 14 | Her ‘ usual stuff ’ had built them both a fabulous reputation and in any case he was n't too sure how she would take such a phrase . |
| 15 | In any case he was already living where he intended to retire . |
| 16 | In any case it was much further up to Tummelside . |
| 17 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 18 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 19 | This concept , ‘ state socialism ’ , was however not properly socialist , and in any case it was inappropriate to modern conditions . |
| 20 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 21 | It was unlikely , because there were numerous Telfords in the phone book , and in any case it was something she 'd have to risk . |
| 22 | In any case it was too late now . |
| 23 | In any case it was dark well before ten . ’ |
| 24 | The truth of the matter was that in the absence of relevant reliable information any global sum had to be determined in a somewhat arbitrary way , but in any case it was not intended that everybody should be paid the full value of their claims . |
| 25 | With his hand cool and firm on the back of her neck holding her head in place , she could hardly refuse , and in any case it was sensible advice . |
| 26 | ‘ In any case I was born in World 's End , everyone there has been very good to me . ’ |