Example sentences of "if she [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She knew she was violating her bail conditions by being in the Rollercoaster but she also knew she would be perfectly safe if she kept a low profile . |
2 | The villagers often joked that if she met a German tank on the road to Berkeley , she would order it off the road and pass on as if nothing had happened . |
3 | And if she took a sudden dislike to a client , or observed one member behaving badly to another , her command , ‘ Out , cunt ! ’ , sent them packing . |
4 | My Jamaican friend , if she saw a coloured girl being beaten , she would run to help her . |
5 | The threat of exposure hanging over her , so close that she had dwelled since — since when ? — as if she inhabited a thick cloud of suffocating fog . |
6 | It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement . |
7 | She wondered if she would lose her job if she tossed a sodden plaster bandage right at his grinning mouth . |
8 | In l979 , the then underground paper SoHo News offered to publish her work if she got a proper camera . |
9 | I asked Dora Hristova , the choir 's musical director and conductor , if she thought the recent revolution in Bulgaria would change all this . |
10 | Not that Loretta had yet come up with an excuse to contact Mrs Grant , even if she acquired a proper address , but that problem could wait until after she spoke to Bridget . |
11 | What if she made a complete fool of herself and let Ricky down ? |
12 | If she made a genuine offer to return which he rejected , she would have been entitled to maintenance from him . |
13 | With Puddephat 's disappearance in the news , it would not seem odd if she made a casual reference to it over dinner . |
14 | She said I did n't appreciate her , I took her for granted , I did n't notice all the little things she did and that I sulked if she made the slightest mistake . |
15 | This measures the average number of children a woman would have if she experienced the prevailing age pattern of childbearing throughout her reproductive lifetime . |
16 | His mother spoke as if she believed an unnatural weight of learning had fallen on her son 's head and knocked him into madness . |
17 | Asked if she anticipated a hung parliament she smiled . |
18 | If , for example , a patient expressed the wish that the doctor kill her if she reached a particular point of mental and physical deterioration , or if the request was that she be left to die when she was not terminally ill , then the doctor would be legally obliged to ignore the request . |
19 | Even if she left the dubious sanctuary of the car she had no clue to the best direction in which to seek help . |
20 | It was as if she had a hot line to the Devil . |
21 | So had every other beautiful girl , of course ; but Jane Ashton was now not only the first beautiful girl Killion had kissed good night , she was the first to kiss him in return , and kiss him as if she had a great deal to give as well as take . |
22 | It did seem , however , that Donna Hazell , the girl with leukaemia , stood a very good chance of being cured if she had a bone-marrow transplant . |
23 | The girl who would only appear in school plays if she had a non-speaking part was now centre stage . |
24 | Still , the dream had felt so real that he could n't resist ringing her from the office to ask if she had a sixteen-year-old sister he could meet . |
25 | The man paid the gaveller about a shilling a day : if she had a young child to look after at the same time she would have to manage as best she could . |
26 | If she had a particular experience or some expertise , fine . |
27 | If she had a brief glimpse of life 's pleasures , then ‘ bad luck ’ would quickly follow . |
28 | They wrote to Izz , asking her to join them if she had no other work . |
29 | The sadness seemed to extinguish her as if she had no real eyes or fingers or genitals or teeth or frown-lines or kidneys but these were just slight irregularities in the sponge that was her sadness . |
30 | Longing to scream at him to set her free , she reminded herself of her drama-school training , and instead forced herself to look as if she had no more feeling than a block of wood . |