Example sentences of "if she [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she were of full age her ability to consent would have two separate effects . |
| 2 | What would she do if she were to be discovered ? |
| 3 | What if she were to be stranded in the mountains — marooned by a blizzard ? |
| 4 | She needed a plan of action , she decided as she began the task of stripping several layers of wallpaper from the walls — a concerted campaign to protect the club , and if she were to be painfully honest , herself , from the marauding hands of the so-called Midnight Raider . |
| 5 | It was bad enough that she 'd fallen in love with the cold , glacial man she already knew him to be — if she were to suddenly discover a tender , humane element to his character , heaven help her . |
| 6 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 7 | Abruptly she felt as if she were on some kind of mental treadmill , returning to the same overworked grievance . |
| 8 | If he came back he would see her walking away from the house , walking down the track as if she were on her way back to Paris . |
| 9 | Her head was swimming and the floor seemed to be undulating as if she were at sea . |
| 10 | And he could only keep William and stop the court from giving Mummy custody if she were at home to help care for her brother . |
| 11 | Would it be far-fetched then to see Susan , if she were at home ringing up the Gay Byrne Radio Show to tell him what she saw ? |
| 12 | Mainly there was silence , in still greenish light , as if she were at the bottom of a pool . |
| 13 | Under his dark , quizzical gaze she felt as if she were under a microscope as she forced her legs to move , glued a polite smile on her lips . |
| 14 | If she were in Amy 's position , how much would it matter ? |
| 15 | And feeling rather as if she were in a dream , she found herself sitting on a sofa in a quaint old-fashioned parlour , with Roger Kenyon , housebreaker , beside her . |
| 16 | it was almost as if she were in charge . |
| 17 | His grand-daughter , Tatyana Tolstaya ( born in 1951 ) , writes sometimes as if she were in direct communication with the ghosts of the world that vanished when Alexei Nikolaevich was still a young man . |
| 18 | If she were in bed , none of them would happen . |
| 19 | She moved as if she were in a dream , wading through viscous liquid . |
| 20 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 21 | If Bernard was busy with flying lessons then she could be left in peace to get on with her work ; once he was back , if he wanted her to go somewhere with him , he would just say ‘ Come on Laura , we 're going , ’ and even if she were in the middle of a meeting , she would put away what she was doing and go . |
| 22 | She felt as if she were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 23 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 24 | A short time later , while riding beside Silas , Lucy felt as if she were in a dream . |
| 25 | She could n't bear this any longer , this toing and froing of his emotions , tossing her around as if she were in the eye of a tornado . |
| 26 | And then he went and sat on the blue dralon chair in the immaculate drawing-room , the bottle of scotch at his side , Rose 's dress draped carefully along the sofa as if she were in it and alive . |
| 27 | On balance , she felt enough loyalty to Gilbert and enough concern about Amy to feel that , if she were alive and if she were by any chance a party to her husband 's death , the Church rather than the police should be her first sanctuary . |
| 28 | I could always tell if she was under pressure , and she was always able to talk to me . |
| 29 | It was as if she was under some sort of hypnotic spell . |
| 30 | The silence lengthened as Lucenzo surveyed her , and she knew intuitively that he was debating whether to pursue her or not , wondering if she was worth teasing any longer and perhaps forming some other devilish plan . |