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Example sentences for "case like"

  • In a case like this I charge half the proceeds of the sale as my commission for making the deal and as my fee for my time, risk and trouble.

  • And what becomes of the woman and the children in a case like that?

  • He therefore said abruptly: "What would you do in a case like that?

  • But now, said he, just suppose a case like one of these.

  • At last comes along a case which is apparently a settler, for there is a little brain with vast and varied powers,--a case like that of Byron, for instance.

  • What would you have done in a case like that?

  • It is difficult to know what to do in a case like this.

  • I would never have a case like that, Mac.

  • In a case like this, of faithlessness, let it happen to man or to woman, the wounding of the self-esteem is not the least evil that must be borne.

  • I knowed a case like this, once afore," observed old Miss Till, who carried round the milk to Deerham.

  • Ay, but do you know what that waiting involves, in a case like this?

  • He can't understand a woman's feelings in a case like this, at least he could not understand a passionate, faulty girl like me.

  • Strong as appearances were against her, I feel that I cannot forgive myself that I took anything for granted in a case like that.

  • Beauty, in a case like this, is but a mask which time or the loathsome fingers of disease would surely strip off; and then what an object would confront the disenchanted lover!

  • I must say more, Beatrice, for in a case like this, your welfare is at stake, and for my part, I do not see how George Canninge could do better than by making you mistress of Ardley.

  • I never am angry: but in a case like this I feel bound to speak.

  • You never know, in a case like that of Opdyke.

  • In a case like this, there's bound to be.

  • They are bound to work together, in a case like this.

  • In a case like this, one can't go back again.

  • Will my learned friends say that, in a case like that, you could appeal to the arbitrament of the Supreme Court of the United States?

  • Illustration: "Now, what would you do in a case like that?

  • Now, what would you do in a case like that?

  • Of course, in a case like this, we try to get at both sides before we take any action.

  • There's a law that covers a case like that.

  • In a case like this I couldn't express myself properly unless I saw the fellow I was talking to.

  • Oh, no, sir; a nice front room; we don't consider money in a case like this.

  • Doctor Morgan," I said, feeling sure that Doctor Gordon would send no one but Alfred on a case like this.

  • No; my pride lies dormant in a case like this," he answered simply.

  • Got to ask a lot of questions in a case like this," he half apologized.

  • I must not neglect the smallest clew in a case like this.

  • Suicide is, of course, the most natural suspicion in a case like this, and it isn't hard to conceal enough opium in a cigarette to kill a dozen men.

  • Divorce ought to meet a case like theirs," she went on obstinately.

  • I am sure there isn't a single member of the feminine sex, however daring and advanced may be her views, who doesn't prefer in a case like that to have a ring on her finger.

  • In my view by far the best thing to do in a case like that is to go about things in the respectable, I mean the regulation way.

  • A death like that strikes him as too gentle or too banal for a case like this.

  • I am not generalising, but a case like that is sufficient to damn the whole.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another boat; case like; case occurring; case reported; case they; case where; cases treated; cases where; could reply; dear godfather; enchanted castle; euery side; geographical distribution; great military; insulated wire; later chapters; most interesting; moving bodies; natural state; often nearly; peace treaty; putting down; royal order; save himself; shall deem; wild turkey