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• Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from: (16) (a)   I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] (16) (b)   I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from: (17)   I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow] And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf. (18)   I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]
• Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.
• You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.
• The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.
• He drew the case eight!
• a door case; a window case
• a case for spectacles; the case of a watch
• Casing upon the matter.
• Execution does not automatically stop at the next case.
• Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.
• There were another five cases reported overnight.
• Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.  Latin is a language that employs case.
• For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
• The accusative case canonically indicates a direct object.  Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh.
• “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
• He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
• The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
• The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
• We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.
• It was one of the detective's easiest cases.  Social workers should work on a maximum of forty active cases.  The doctor told us of an interesting case he had treated that morning.
• Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace.
• Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
• In case of fire, break glass. [sign on fire extinguisher holder in public space]
• It is not the case that every unfamiliar phrase is an idiom.