Example sentences of "[adv] if she [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps if she could speak to Mahoney again , tell him what happened out by Mountpelier that morning , he would tell her more .
2 She 'd seen her brother 's and she wanted to see if they all looked like that and she asked me so I showed her mine , but it was only if she 'd show me hers and she did as well . ’
3 She did not throw clothes away if she could mend them or alter them to make them more fashionable .
4 She wondered crazily if she should thank Matilda for inflicting the injury .
5 Harriet , still grieving and perplexed and unable to obtain any further information from Liza , asked Edna outright if she could throw any light on the matter .
6 Presenting herself at the servant 's entrance , Joan asked nervously if she might speak to the housekeeper .
7 Her supervisor and other friends in the Faculty encouraged her to think that she would get an appointment at Cambridge eventually if she could hang on .
8 Alexandra wondered dispassionately if she would weep , and decided that if she did , she , Alexandra , would leave her to do it .
9 To her dismay , Robert himself answered , but , ignoring this stroke of bad luck , she asked calmly if she could speak to Dawn .
10 The two armies waited while messengers conveyed to Mary the offer of her rebel nobles to support her once more if she would discard her husband 's murderer .
11 She night even have said more if she could have thought of anything .
12 He would n't look twice at a small-town girl , even if she could design wedding dresses .
13 To her shame , she 'd postponed her departure to Bordeaux until the last possible moment , hanging round Les Hiboux , hoping against hope that he would come there to find her — to say a formal goodbye at least , even if she could hope for nothing else , she 'd thought achingly .
14 And since she had no idea where to go yet , even if she could get off the island , the only course possible was to take things a step at a time and try not to rail against a spiteful fate .
15 And even if she could escape , what was there to go to ?
16 It is unlikely to be in exactly the same position , even if she could find it , for during the night there is a great deal of jostling among the youngsters and any one of them may have moved about eighteen inches or so .
17 But , even if she could find the nerve to admit to her deception , she could n't own up to a thing — Cara was depending on her !
18 Even if she could have got him into one , which she very much doubted , there was no guarantee it could hold his weight without breaking .
19 perhaps , yes , most certainly , she would live here if she could afford to do so . …
20 He promises her freedom and a passage overseas if she will betray her comrades .
21 But then if she could get set nights .
22 going back to her childhood , well then if she can remember things her parents said
23 We do n't know yet if she will have to come home .
24 She had to decide before she saw her parents again if she should confess all that she 'd been up to .
25 Cara had grown up in the country too of course , but would n't walk anywhere if she could avoid it .
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