Example sentences of "in any case [pers pn] [vb past] " 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 | We lost an awful lot of merchant vessels , and in any case we wanted those boats to bring armaments across , not food . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In any case she did n't answer my question . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 15 | 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 ) : |
| 16 | In any case he had dangerous worries on his own doorstep . |
| 17 | In any case he had more pressing matters to worry about . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 22 | In any case it did n't preclude , on Pound 's part , genuine affection . |
| 23 | When it was discovered that a member of the Immigration Department was in the National Front his seniors merely glossed over it , saying that he was not a permanent member and in any case it did not affect the way he carried out his duties . |
| 24 | And all agree that in any case it did not require skill , merely strength . |
| 25 | In any case it did not deter such aims as : |
| 26 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | I did not like recipes ; in any case I knew how to cook what my husband liked perfectly well without them . |
| 28 | Oh yes , she was an exception ; but physically she was not exactly … … in any case I had determined never to do Salome with a girl who dances . |
| 29 | This surprised me , as I had not thought of him as someone who would favour me , and in any case I presumed that he would support Willie Whitelaw . |
| 30 | But in any case I 'd chucked all me things in the cemetery , you know , and that 's so when they caught up with me I had n't got any newspapers . |