Example sentences of "if she [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew that if she kept the note , she might be tempted . |
| 2 | If she met the girl Marie on the way back there would be even more for her to tell Mademoiselle Rabier ! |
| 3 | FitzAlan turned on her , flinging her off as if she carried the plague . |
| 4 | ‘ What if she uses the book the way Ward was going to ? ’ another voice added with concern . |
| 5 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 6 | She praised Princess Diana and claimed : ‘ If she ran the world , child abuse would n't exist any more . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What profiteth a woman if she gains the world — and loses her femininity ? ’ |
| 8 | But the Department has told her to destroy all copies , return the original and warned that further action could be taken if she ignores the advice . |
| 9 | She behaved as if she owned the place . |
| 10 | Lesley Banks is n't sure if she likes the idea , but admits that the buzz around town has certainly opened doors for her . |
| 11 | You , I mean , if she if she likes the girl , which she obviously does , why not just rap her door or wait till she sees her and say you know |
| 12 | ‘ We will let Posy have a look at the male tortoises we have got on Sunday to see if she likes the look of them , ’ said Ms Jackson . |
| 13 | Where in the 1930s the mother was given solemn warnings as to what would happen if she disobeyed the rules , the mode now is to refer her , with continual reassurances however , to what might possibly result from some mistaken handlings : ‘ Here 's what happens once in a while when the needs of the child are n't recognized ’ ( Spock , 1946 , chapter on ‘ The Two Year Old ’ ) . |
| 14 | But if she took the stallion at the end of that three weeks , he came back in another eleven days in case er she was n't settled you see . |
| 15 | Belinda thrilled at once to the beauty of it all , and knew that she would enjoy the opportunity of finding out more about where all these lovely things came from … if she took the job , she reminded herself hastily , just as Dr Russell had recently done , even while she suspected that the matter was a foregone conclusion . |
| 16 | She 'll watch it half an hour in the evening before she goes to bed if she gets the chance . |
| 17 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 18 | And what would Gemma Dallam — Gemma Gage — think to that , she wondered , if she knew the price he had made another woman pay to recover her brown satin ? |
| 19 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 20 | She , like other woman-centred psychologists , does not pursue this question , but she manages to write as if she knew the answer . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Derby , South ( Mrs. Beckett ) would be shocked if she knew the extent to which the hon. Member for Dagenham attempts to lead the public into believing that Labour would operate a more generous rebate system . |
| 22 | If she knew the truth today , her sympathy and her sense of drama would be equally engaged , and with her money , her right to know , to know everything . |
| 23 | It was hard , when a man worked as hard as he did , making money for her — yes , and with an ache in his heart — that she should sit there , looking — as if she saw the walls of the room closing in . |
| 24 | If she heard the taxi , then she would know everything was all right . |
| 25 | I want to ask Sonja if she thinks the postman lost it , but I stop myself . |
| 26 | ‘ Not when I think of the trouble she 's caused , and she 'd cause more if she got the chance . ’ |
| 27 | And Miss Linnet Gage , who would marry Adolphus Moon herself , like a shot , if she got the chance . |
| 28 | She would certainly go if she got the chance , and he would not blame her . |
| 29 | There was a fair indication too that , if she got the job , she was going to work harder than she had ever worked , in that she would have an assistant to work with her . |
| 30 | No one asked the matron if she thought the boy might have done this to silence Charley rather than avenge his mother . |