Example sentences of "if she had [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an instant she stared at him , wondering if she had somehow managed to mis-hear . |
| 2 | ‘ My steward shall take charge of the matter for you — if you so wish , ’ Elizabeth Mowbray interposed , as if she had already given thought to it . |
| 3 | As they walked towards the hotel , she gave him the rates on an ascending scale and spat her gum into the kerbside as if she had already decided what his preference would be . |
| 4 | She was wearing a dark tracksuit and was smiling warmly , as if she had simply stopped on her way to the solarium to pick up a neighbour . |
| 5 | If she had simply gone straight to France when she had received his letter she would have fallen for it even more . |
| 6 | And , further wishing to appear brisk and fresh , as if she had simply alighted at the manor gates from her carriage , she allowed herself plenty of time for the familiar trudge down the cobbled hill of St Jude 's Street to the flat plain of St Jude 's Square and Market Square in the valley below and then up the other side , past the brewery and the iron foundry , through the maze of brewers ' and iron-workers ' cottages , to the manor , the skyline beyond it dominated by the squat , square bulk and the huge , foully belching chimney-stack of Dallam 's mill . |
| 7 | She looked at him as if she had barely heard him . |
| 8 | She felt as guilty about running away as if she had just robbed a lame beggar of his last groat . |
| 9 | Meeting his eyes , their expression now cool and shuttered , Luce wondered if she had just imagined that blazing look . |
| 10 | She looked as stunningly elegant , as poised and assured — because even her slight nervousness seemed professional — as if she had just stepped out of a cabine at Dior . |
| 11 | Not if she had just moved . |
| 12 | Sybil made a faint tutting noise and shuddered , as if she had just discovered an unpleasant insect on one of her flowers . |
| 13 | Nicolo had flung his head back ; he was laughing as if she had just told the world 's funniest joke . |
| 14 | Her blonde curls looked as if she had just come from a hairdresser rather than from the hand basin in her own bedroom which was where she had washed her hair this morning . |
| 15 | She opened the door before Massingham had time to ring , her handsome shield-shaped face composed under the light brown fringe , and looking in her shirt , slacks and leather jerkin as elegantly informal as if she had just come in from a country walk . |
| 16 | ‘ You do want something to eat ? ’ she asked , turning to Loretta as if she had just remembered her manners . |
| 17 | Tina looked guilty , as if she had just betrayed a secret . |
| 18 | She looked as if she had just got out of bed , and McLeish had a sudden vision of a dark basement flat with greasy mugs on every surface . |
| 19 | Her arms felt languorous , her flesh soft and relaxed as if she had just awakened from sleep . |
| 20 | She simply looks satisfied , as if she had just bitten into the most delicious slab of chocolate she ever tasted . |
| 21 | If she had also left her name and address they could have been parcelled up and posted to her — but she had n't . |
| 22 | Her face became as bright as an icon as if she had momentarily glimpsed the old customs of Irkutsk : a bridal party bearing skates of bone and bodices of the finest needle-point standing on the southern shore and looking across Baikal ; a sallow-faced groom from Chita smoothing his first moustache and pacing the deck of an ice-locked paddle-steamer . |
| 23 | She stopped abruptly , almost as if she had metaphorically clapped a hand over her mouth . |
| 24 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |
| 25 | The wind seemed to be coming from her left , bitter in the as if she had suddenly received a painful blow . |
| 26 | Sybil wrinkled her nose as if she had suddenly detected a smell from the drains . |
| 27 | Marie 's eyes shone with the light of inspiration , as if she had suddenly found a purpose in life . |
| 28 | Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before . |
| 29 | But the tragedy is she could have known those blessings all through those years , if she had never left if she had never gone down to Moab . |
| 30 | Sarah said , as if she had never suspected it . |