Example sentences of "in any case [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successful negotiation of a large French loan to Russia in April 1906 , a matter of supreme importance to statesmen in St Petersburg hard-pressed by defeat and revolution , immediately reduced the need for such payments ; and it is very doubtful whether in any case they made any real difference to the course of events . |
| 2 | Hardly , one would think , since such occurrences were by no means rare at this period , and in any case they came to the rescue in every possible way . |
| 3 | And in any case they wanted them back as soon as possible , and there would be the interest to pay . |
| 4 | In any case they did not inherit the doctrinaire restrictions of their elders . |
| 5 | However , no money was to be spent on florists ' bouquets or wreaths , and in any case we 'd both always hated to see flowers wired and thrust into stiff , unnatural arrangements . |
| 6 | ‘ In any case we want to continue the investigation and if necessary will take the matter up with the appropriate authorities . ’ |
| 7 | We lost an awful lot of merchant vessels , and in any case we wanted those boats to bring armaments across , not food . |
| 8 | In any case she thinks it is just a matter of time before more women start coming through to senior levels , both because the company is taking on more female graduates and because they are a pretty self-confident lot anyway . |
| 9 | In any case she had not expected that her role in the assessment would be limited to receiving information back from an EWO : ‘ We did n't ask for it [ the assessment ] — it was the education system who said it should be done — if I accept them into my home I do n't expect them to disappear for twelve months , if they invited themselves in . ’ |
| 10 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 11 | But I have given her up , and in any case she has meant nothing to me for years . ’ |
| 12 | In any case she did n't answer my question . |
| 13 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 14 | In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her . |
| 15 | In any case he seemed reluctant to become engaged in a ground war — except possibly to retain the rich prize of Malaya and its rubber . |
| 16 | He had reasoned that , even if they could n't talk there , the morning concert might do her some good , that she had never willingly set foot out of the flat since it happened , that in any case he had a father 's responsibility towards his younger sister , and he had promised to go and hear her . |
| 17 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 18 | In any case he had the deepest contempt , first to last , for the facile conceptualising that often passes for advanced thought , rather like Orwell 's contempt for W. H. Auden 's partisan poem ‘ Spain' ( 1937 ) : |
| 19 | In any case he had dangerous worries on his own doorstep . |
| 20 | In any case he had more pressing matters to worry about . |
| 21 | In any case he does not see students at home . ’ |
| 22 | While Ismail Belig may have some evidence for this view , evidence which in any case he does not mention , it is worth pointing out that by the time he was writing , the combination of such important posts would have been highly unusual , if not unknown , whereas in the early days of the Ottoman state it was not uncommon . |
| 23 | He may have felt nervous about having plundered Calcutta or he may have thought he had done enough to show who was master in Bengal , but in any case he withdrew and paid the Company some compensation for its losses . |
| 24 | In view of his experience at Highgate School , he had always been interested in the life and tribulations of schools teachers ; and in any case he held strong views about education , about which he lacked an opportunity to state his ideas at length until he gave some lectures in Chicago in 1950 . |
| 25 | In any case he has forbidden us to go back there and Mrs Gracie has to walk her pug herself . |
| 26 | In any case it remains very doubtful , whatever the view of liberals within these parties , whether the pro-Soviet elements would allow any fundamental rejection of Soviet policy . |
| 27 | In any case it seemed at this point that the war might be lost , and only a month after finishing the poem he was expressing to Martin Browne grave misgivings about the worth and value of his poetic activities , which often appeared to be futile . |
| 28 | This leads some to claim it for immediately after the return , but it can as well be immediately before the flight , and in any case it dates the change securely to the time around 480 . |
| 29 | ‘ The quote you 're trying to mangle uses the verb ‘ to protest ’ , but in any case it does n't fit in this instance . ’ |
| 30 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |