Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] any case " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where Roberts had commended Prince Albert 's provision of three bedrooms because the use of the living-room as sleeping quarters led to unwholesome crowding , the realists began to point out that the crowding occurred in any case , since even those who could afford to rent the extra rooms , could not afford to furnish them . |
| 2 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 3 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 4 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 5 | If she had stopped to think , she would have remembered that Brown Owl had told the Pack more than once always to seek the help of a grown-up they knew in any case of emergency . |
| 6 | Never again was it to be so easy for blunt common sense , which knew in any case that the triumphant world of liberal capitalist progress was the best of all possible worlds , to mobilise the universe on behalf of its prejudices . |
| 7 | They had in any case been considering asking me to remove her , as she had caused them quite a lot of trouble in one way and another . |
| 8 | The Wordsworths returned to England in May ; their money had in any case run out . |
| 9 | But the decision for closure had in any case already been made by the predecessor AHA . |
| 10 | The degree of hostility to these treaty revision proposals stemmed in large part from feelings that any continuing unsolicited Western involvement in the legal system was an insult to Japan , and that Westernization had in any case gone too far . |
| 11 | In the years between Swann and Burnage the media had in any case had a field day . |
| 12 | He and Robert had in any case disappeared to drink and play cards ( the express had a gaming saloon ) soon after dinner . |
| 13 | Sydney Greenstreet was too old to be taking much of an interest , and had in any case become obsessed with some obscure quest of his own , neglecting his ‘ business ’ . |
| 14 | That statement had been true and had in any case not been made by Moorgate Mercantile , since H.P.I. was not an agent of Moorgate Mercantile for the purpose of making such a statement . |
| 15 | ( The Financial Times of June 21 noted that these countries had in any case serviced only about 5 per cent of these debts in 1989/90 . ) |
| 16 | She had simply , and thoughtlessly , intended to kill what she had in any case thought of as an insincere proposal . |
| 17 | Owing to the increased employment on war work , trade union membership had in any case been on the increase . |