Example sentences of "if she had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asks the daughter of the refugee cook , remembering the days when he made love with this daughter , if she had known two different boys . |
| 2 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 3 | Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense . |
| 4 | Would it have been easier if she had n't seen Lucy almost every day for four years going into or out of the office next door ? |
| 5 | Well — if she had taken kindlier to her a year ago , we might have been wed by now , and I would have escaped the list . ’ |
| 6 | She relaxed , as satisfied as if she had chaired a difficult meeting through to its triumphant conclusion or been acclaimed at Board level for the fresh approach of her latest report . |
| 7 | This would only be possible if she had intensive 24-hour cover : if she could employ carers both night and day who could be flexible enough to adapt to her needs rather than vice versa . |
| 8 | It was as if she had vanished off the face of the earth , ’ Anthony Palmer , for the prosecution , said . |
| 9 | Mrs Wilks 's body lay twisted , as if she had rolled . |
| 10 | ‘ I could say without doubt that this lady would have been alive today if she had not taken drugs at that party . ’ |
| 11 | Napoleon 's Number One Fan , who during Abel Gance 's film was accused by the man in the next seat of masturbating underneath his hat and splashing his wife , but who stoutly defended himself by saying that the unfortunate staining would never have happened if she had n't nudged him and thus dislodged the titfer from his lap . |
| 12 | Perhaps if she had not got pregnant … perhaps they could have pulled it off . |
| 13 | In her bedroom now , sipping her whisky , she acknowledged for the first time in her life that if she had to make a list of the happy times , it would properly have to include the hours she had spent with Graham in his garden . |
| 14 | Would she have enjoyed him so much if she had thought the whole thing permanent ? she asked herself sternly now , sitting up in bed and shaking off the poppy and mandragora effect that thinking about that summer had on her . |
| 15 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 16 | Phoebe , in fairness , could not have known that the maths teacher , shamed in public , should take to hating Maggie with a spiteful glee , though she would probably not have cared if she had . |
| 17 | And if she had … |
| 18 | If she had , all hell would have broken loose . |
| 19 | They seemed to her unearthly ; a new combination of loss , pain and fear : they were howls she would have made herself only half-an-hour before , if she had known how . |
| 20 | Maggie was a very young woman , she thought that if she had to face a gang of young firemen she would be more comfortable in something smart . |
| 21 | Beforehand she had combed her hair by the light of the flashlamp , smoothed and rearranged her clothes but even if she had n't Moran would not have noticed this evening . |
| 22 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 23 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 24 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 25 | The widow 's suit looked brand-new and Wexford could n't help wondering if she had actually been out the previous afternoon to buy it . |
| 26 | If she had asked for Ward Five he would have told her morning visiting in the public wards was forbidden and he might , because he was feeling benevolent , have called her love . |
| 27 | I asked Zsuzsa if she had a boy-friend . |
| 28 | She tore up the inheritance of Edward Heath , as if she had had no part in it . |
| 29 | He stopped , realizing what he was doing , and looked at her carefully to see if she had taken it in . |
| 30 | I mean , it did n't sound as if she had plans to go off with someone else . ’ |