Example sentences of "case [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smiling foolishly , he puts the car into gear , and violently accelerates away , taking one last look at the girl , just in case she turns . |
| 2 | ‘ So she 's not covered up with bits of black in case she turns you on ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ All right , ’ says Howard , smiling to himself , on the side of his face away from her , in case she opens her eyes , ‘ I made that bit up . |
| 4 | this year she chose a big one like I got for Arf last year , cos I ai n't got a double of that so I 'm going to have to tape it off , fill it up and then put it back on cos in case she opens mine . |
| 5 | I drift back indoors , in case she decides to go all the way and tip me over the edge while she 's at it . |
| 6 | In which case she does n't have to worry about funding from income , which is what your question was was n't it ? |
| 7 | So I stay there just in case she wakes up . |
| 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 | There may be a case for replacing her with someone else later , having a series of nurses rather than a permanent one , in case she becomes overemotionally involved . |
| 10 | The pronouncement of big statements is anathema to Juliana because she feels her point of view changes from time to time and she 's afraid of saying too much in case she alienates people , but she does admit to finding life in America ‘ scary ’ at the moment . |
| 11 | Evidently in this case she has benefited , although that is left unstated . |
| 12 | I will maybe just remind her in case she has a problem finding one if she leaves it too late . |
| 13 | Novella no longer needs to feel gratitude that in her case she has a father who has allowed her to teach in his place ; she has parted the curtain and is speaking for herself — in as many tongues as she pleases . |
| 14 | But I have given her up , and in any case she has meant nothing to me for years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going to organise a liver biopsy , liver scan , and oesophagoscopy , in case she has varices . |
| 16 | In case she has an attack . |
| 17 | He is now too afraid to even feel secure in the forge in case she sees him there . |
| 18 | Annabel has already telephoned three times , but I 've asked her not to call again , in case she disturbs a treatment . |
| 19 | In each case she argues that female creativity has been constructed by men as a contradiction in terms . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's in the cottage hospital , still unconscious as far as I know — I 've left one of my boys there in case she comes to , but she 's running a high temperature and they 're afraid of bronchial pneumonia . |
| 21 | I was going to say , I wo n't mention her name in case she 's run out of . |
| 22 | It should be alongside the wall , or about one foot away from the wall to allow space for the carer , in case she needs to help the patient from that side . |
| 23 | I suppose he 's just her voice in case she needs to identify herself ! ’ |
| 24 | erm , well I think it 's , do , erm I do n't know whether you understand what 's been asked doctor it cou it 's a question of costs , er normally where er matters erm are dealt with in chambers for in counsel appear then erm these counsel do n't get paid for the other side erm unless there is certificate for counsel as I understand it , were the , were the counsel appeared before the Judge erm they are entitled to their costs and this is er an appeal to the Judge , but er what I think Mr is saying is , in case he happens to be wrong in that he would like an order that er his fees should be proper fees of the defen of the plaintiffs on this appeal and er such as you could say seems to me that er , that is a , that would be proper |
| 25 | You may also need to supervise the patient , in case he forgets what he has to do and leaves the gas on without lighting it , for example , or without putting the pan of food on the cooker . |
| 26 | He carries a picture of wife Sarah and his two young boys , just in case he forgets what they look like ! |
| 27 | Even if he is walking well , you may need to take a wheelchair in case he gets tired , or you can plan the outing so that you walk short distances between benches in the street or local park . |
| 28 | You can plan the first outing as a short walk down the road and back : the patient walks ahead , while you follow at some distance , in case he gets into difficulties . |
| 29 | SUEDE singing star Brett Anderson is terrified of going to a rave in case he gets beaten up . |
| 30 | Yes , erm , the , the most archetypal one is , is the miser of course , who , who turns up with a stale box of chocolates and an ingratiating smile , and proceeds to eat you out of house and home , and then when you 're at the supermarket , disappears mysteriously at the checkout , and returns when you 've paid with a , a bumper bag a crisps that he keeps in his bedroom when , in case he gets peckish at night . |