Example sentences of "[pers pn] in case [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I last looked at it , one question on behaviour modification had managed to creep on there as well but I ca n't remember what the question is , so you 'd better pay attention for the whole of the rest of this lecture in case I in case I remember it . |
| 2 | I am returning it to you in case it can be of use to someone else . |
| 3 | ‘ Sub-lieutenant Bacci here will stay and help you in case you leave any gaps . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I 'd better dance with you in case you wanted another drink . ’ |
| 5 | You will need public liability insurance to cover you in case you or one of your employees accidentally injures someone or damages property . |
| 6 | The enclosed card will help you remember the CLARENCE number , so please carry it with you in case you need to call us . |
| 7 | I was just mentioning it to you in case you wanted |
| 8 | She said she because I left it to you in case you wanted to spit in the sink she goes oh I did n't last night , so I never brought it up alright ? |
| 9 | I will send Janet to you in case there is anything you want . ’ |
| 10 | I dare n't wear that nice fur coat that cousin Freda gave me in case I get bombed by the Animal Liberation Front . |
| 11 | Just say that 's what you set out to do , to stick with me in case I knew something , and that when the mission was accomplished , you brought him home . ’ |
| 12 | And you have to be wary of upsetting me in case I 'm planning on the wholesale destruction of Sarah Chester Fabrics . |
| 13 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 14 | Seeing this , the Egyptian soldiers were unable to attack them in case they accidentally injured or killed one of these sacred animals . |
| 15 | Their daughter had provided all the labour-saving devices : dishwasher , washing machine , spin-dryer , all housed in a disused still room near the back door , although until she came the Copleys had been reluctant to use them in case they could n't turn them off , visualizing the machines whirling away all night , overheating , blowing up , the whole rectory pulsating with an uncontrollable power . |
| 16 | People like General Orde Wingate were training men , one of whom was David Patterson , one of our clergy , and Pop helped by writing a book on Burmese for them in case they got separated from their units . |
| 17 | But make sure , you know , you well you take over the house , so we know what 's in them in case they get thrown out with the bloody rubbish ! |
| 18 | She explained that she wanted someone outside her family to know about them in case anything should happen to her before she would be able to raise the issue with someone with influence in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | This would make it easy to disconnect them in case there was a need to make changes , or if problems arose at a later date . |
| 20 | Find out as much about the food requirements of your fish before you purchase them in case you can not provide the special diet required . |
| 21 | Keep them and one of them in case you get another three or a six . |
| 22 | ‘ The other man 's a makeweight — an insurance for them in case I withdraw . |
| 23 | I begin to really hate men and do n't want to get close to them in case I get hurt again . |
| 24 | Perhaps Scott should take it with him in case someone tried to make contact . |
| 25 | ( Marco Polo is known to have carried a number of goldfish with him in case his lodestone ever broke down . |
| 26 | Endill took his torch and screwdriver with him in case there was anything to unscrew . |
| 27 | I think for a bit about going to ask him how I get home but I do n't want to ask him in case he tells Mr Jackson . |
| 28 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 29 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 30 | All he had intended to do was keep tabs on her in case he needed a hostage after the hit on Mobuto . |