Example sentences of "case [pers pn] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 2 | A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different . |
| 3 | The police have been up several times , you know that attache case I said the dustman found that time ? |
| 4 | A lot of first publication trade paperbacks appear simultaneously in hardback , in which case I give the details for the trade paperback while mentioning the availability of the hardback . |
| 5 | In your case I suspect the water is coming through the seams on the bulkhead around the footwells . |
| 6 | I ambled intentionally slowly , hiding my wrist-watch in my pocket , in case I damaged the leg further through impatience and hurrying . |
| 7 | Well in that case I think the cheapest cheapest alternative yeah is erm , if you 're gon na do er something like that , would be a barn dance in the hall down Edinburgh Way er which you get quite cheap |
| 8 | ( And , in case I muddled the halves and thought the lady 's name was Mary Marks , I decided that it would be a very windy day and that , as the skirt of her wedding gown was blown by the gales , I was able to see that she was wearing suspenders . ) |
| 9 | ‘ No , ’ he agreed , ‘ but I thought I 'd just say so in case you got the wrong idea . ’ |
| 10 | Well , just in case you get the itch again ( and almost everybody does sooner or later ) keep in touch . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm almost afraid to offer you another glass , ’ he said , ‘ in case you get the wrong idea . ’ |
| 12 | In this case you register the product with a picture postcard ! |
| 13 | Do n't use these outlets for appliances containing heating elements , though , in case you overload the adaptor . |
| 14 | She might just decide to kill you , in case you spill the beans . |
| 15 | ( In case you missed the first , it featured a woman brewing up in a Beetle . ) |
| 16 | Yet both Rosie and Victoria had warned her against letting herself fall for him , in case she followed the same fate as his other nurses . |
| 17 | A big slice of ham , or grilled bacon , or a few sausages , and they could put a few extra on Benny 's plate in case she felt the need of it . |
| 18 | In the second case she judged the problem of a woman who had to choose between a mature knight of complete probity and a young man devoid of worth . |
| 19 | Limping slightly , she entered the lift , far more disturbed by the weight of Rune 's arm around her waist than the quickly diminishing pain in her ankle , but unwilling to dispense with the former in case she exacerbated the latter . |
| 20 | Sabine had been guiltily aware of the click of her sandal heels on the flags of the ancient cloister , and was tempted to tiptoe instead , in case she upset the sleeping spirits of the long-departed monks with such frivolous modernity . |
| 21 | She did n't dare ride fast in case she startled the cows into a charge or a stampede or something . |
| 22 | In either case we violate the maxim of brevity . |
| 23 | In the latter case we apply the figure differently ; the rules of projection are not the same . |
| 24 | This is by far the most common technique , but on some computers f is considered to be an integer with a binary point on the extreme right ; in this case we use the term mantissa , rather than fraction , for f . |
| 25 | Somewhere between the best case and the worst case we suppose the actual future to lie . |
| 26 | We had to circle all the islands in case we missed the eider . |
| 27 | In this case we square the whole key and take a centre part of it to allocate the records to buckets . |
| 28 | The poor chap 's in a state of terror in case we do the same to him . |
| 29 | In the first case we have the simulation of user behaviour , in the second case the stimulation of learning behaviour . |
| 30 | In the present case we have the advantage of evidence which the judge lacked : in particular the mother 's statement and the Official Solicitor 's report . |