Example sentences of "in [noun sg] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 2 | She stood , catching her breath , holding her head in case it fell off . |
| 3 | I packed the Scandinavian jersey I 'd worn at Woodbine into the suitcase just in case it jogged anyone 's memory , and got dressed in dark trousers , open-necked shirt and a short zipped navy jacket with lighter blue bands round waist and wrists . |
| 4 | Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying . |
| 5 | Unwilling to prolong the conversation in case it took an even more embarrassing turn , she said her goodbyes . |
| 6 | Reportedly stung by media criticism that he had appointed a mediocre Cabinet , Franco personally contacted PMDB leader Orestes Quércia , the former governor of the state of Sao Paulo who was known to be wary of involvement in the interim government in case it affected his chances in the 1994 presidential elections . |
| 7 | In case it had become corrupted in transmission , it was repeated . |
| 8 | I even retraced the route again in March , just in case it had been thrown into the undergrowth , but again , nothing . |
| 9 | Anyhow I gave them some antibiotic powder to put in its drinking water just in case it had a mild infection and they went away happy and said they would tell their friends . ’ |
| 10 | Nobody would be wandering about with the sharpened shaft of a golf club , just in case it came in handy . |
| 11 | Quality Kraft Carpets Ltd decided that they would immediately enter the North American market , but did not want to commit too much money to the venture in case it failed . |
| 12 | Miss Harder even refused the offer of financial assistance , in case it led to another child losing his chance of coming to Britain . |
| 13 | Marie 's parents had strong religious views that made her feel very guilty about having sex in their home when she and her husband had to live there for a while : " We did it on the bedroom floor on the wedding night because I would n't use the bed , in case it made a noise . |
| 14 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 15 | She did n't want to see the hurt in his eyes , in case it made her soften and forgive him . |
| 16 | I stand up and brush my coat down just in case it got dirty with me sitting on the ground . |
| 17 | She had been going to set it loose in case it got too tame to fend for itself . |
| 18 | In case it got back . |
| 19 | They would n't even tell their own mothers what size socks they wear , in case it got out to the papers . ’ |
| 20 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 21 | He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up . |
| 22 | She wandered back into the small sitting-room with her mug of tea , put it down on the polished surface of a table but removed it hastily in case it left a tell-tale ring which S. Kettering might complain about in the future . |
| 23 | He would never ask her why she was pulling faces , in case it encouraged her to pull worse ones . |
| 24 | She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box . |
| 25 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 26 | But when one of the squad emerged from the shop with the remains of the rucksack , and told police that he was unhappy about the cause of the fire , a full scale evacuation of the city centre was started in case it proved to be an incendiary device and in case others had been planted . |
| 27 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 28 | They were all Altun family retainers of long standing — men whose first and only concern would be to protect the interests of the Kha-Khan — and Burun watched them out of the corner of his eye in case it occurred to Nogai to send Sipotai warning . |
| 29 | Melanie felt a shudder of dread as she went by every door , in case it opened and something , some clockwork horror rolling hugely on small wheels , some terrifying joke or hideous novelty , emerged to put her courage to the test . |
| 30 | But I did n't show it to her till the last night in case it did n't go down well . |