Example sentences of "if she was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alina stayed where she was , her eyes closed , almost as if she was listening to the silence . |
| 2 | know of her , see if she was speeding on the pavement |
| 3 | Claudia stared at him , wondering if she was dealing with a madman . |
| 4 | Ruth wondered if she was gazing at the dark whiskers which sprouted on her chin and made her so appropriately , though unfortunately , named . |
| 5 | She moved , as she often did , from pure , concentrated malice , to a vaguely girlish mode , as if she was looking for someone ( not Henry ) to put his arms round her and tell her everything was all right . |
| 6 | It sounded as if she was looking for something . |
| 7 | He played loud music if she was writing in the house . |
| 8 | She felt as if she was struggling through a nightmare syrup that suffocated and hampered , and yet still this walk was too short — too short ! |
| 9 | They fell silent for a moment , all of them wondering if she was shopping for the son who was lying in a dissecting trench at the Medico-Legal Institute . |
| 10 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 11 | If she was going to be in the hospital for one night she would need lots of things to read . |
| 12 | But if she was going to be killed , she had tearfully decided , it would be at her home in Mayfair . |
| 13 | Always rang if she was going to be late , always let them know exactly where she was . |
| 14 | If she was going to be devoured , well then She was going to be devoured . |
| 15 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 16 | Her head was swimming so that the gleaming brasses suspended from black overhead beams seemed double-edged , but she was damned , she told herself , if she was going to cave in under Fen 's critical gaze . |
| 17 | She did n't really know if she was going to be able to take any more , and still give a worthwhile performance . |
| 18 | I ca n't smell petrol , and I 'm pretty certain she 'd have blown already if she was going to , but I 'm not prepared to take the chance . |
| 19 | Feeling in no way threatened by Ven , or anybody else , she then began to realise that if she was going to be assertive about anything , then it was about Ven Gajdusek answering one or two questions . |
| 20 | Juliet wondered if she was going about it too forcefully , but she had to know ! |
| 21 | She might have been if she was going at you would n't she ? |
| 22 | It was n't until Thursday that it occurred to Loretta that if she was going near Oxford , she might as well call in on Bridget . |
| 23 | She staggered down the gangway , shell-shocked , and walked home feeling as if she was floating on air but as Saturday approached the nervousness began . |
| 24 | She stared into the camera as if she was talking to it . |
| 25 | I wondered if she was talking to me for a minute . |
| 26 | Zeinab would get emotionally involved if she was talking about breakfast . ’ |
| 27 | Groaning as if in physical pain , she rocked herself back and forth in her chair — her teeth bared as if she was grimacing at some diabolical joke . |
| 28 | The combat suit evaporated the perspiration that she felt springing out of her pores , but her face was blazing , as if she was staring into a furnace . |
| 29 | The woman looked as if she was suffering from a terminal liver disease . |
| 30 | Stella could n't tell whether she was acting or not — she looked dreadful , as if she was suffering from the worst sort of headache , and yet she kept watching herself in the glass , turning her face this way and that , peering forward to follow the track of a tear rolling down her cheek . |