Example sentences of "if she could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thinking of asking Monica if she could record something from the the Model Car Club and |
| 2 | Scarlet had been willing to admit the truth of her words but had ceased too soon to concentrate , her mind already elsewhere as she wondered whether , if she could express herself differently and more coherently , her therapist might not have another , and a clearer , image of her . |
| 3 | He would not be in at all if she could stand it . |
| 4 | Although Great Britain and Ireland was being hammered on this occasion Jane felt so tight and tense at lunchtime on the second day that she asked if she could stand down . |
| 5 | It was almost worth getting her another to see if she could stand up afterwards . |
| 6 | ‘ Take it , ’ the woman had replied when Loretta asked if she could borrow it . |
| 7 | She got in touch months ago , at the end of the summer term , in fact , to ask if she could borrow the flat . |
| 8 | The different ages of her life seemed to exist simultaneously , as if she could move from age to age according to how she felt . |
| 9 | If she could move in with him . |
| 10 | ‘ What are your plans for the rest of the afternoon ? ’ she asked in her best trying-to-be-friendly voice , thinking that if she could pin-point him to some specific part of the house then she could at least do her best to avoid it . |
| 11 | She gripped Fand almost roughly , as if she could hold her back from dying . |
| 12 | There was a slight tremor to the hand she had raised , as if she could hold off the madness that way , and she dropped it swiftly as she absorbed the hardness of his saturnine face and the overt demand glittering hotly in his eyes . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After an almost silent session , I felt unsure how to begin to help her ; so I asked her if she could draw a picture of a tree . |
| 15 | She wondered if she could stage an apparently accidental meeting with Veronica . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She argued that , if she could show that what was regarded as normal behaviour in the United States in fact varies from one society to another , then it followed that such behaviour could not be the result of people 's biological characteristics but rather of their culture . |
| 18 | I asked if she could show me his works from the Twenties . |
| 19 | She had heard rhyming slang , she knew what four by twos meant , and she 'd once been asked if she could speak with a Jewish accent . |
| 20 | While Oliver talked to Mrs Bedwin , Rose asked Mr Brownlow if she could speak to him privately . |
| 21 | Perhaps if she could speak to Mahoney again , tell him what happened out by Mountpelier that morning , he would tell her more . |
| 22 | She faltered , wondering if she could speak the devastation she had felt when Rosa and Dolores had shown her that tiny baby . |
| 23 | To her dismay , Robert himself answered , but , ignoring this stroke of bad luck , she asked calmly if she could speak to Dawn . |
| 24 | So , having no more to discuss on that topic , I went on to ask Sylvia if she could think of a place in her own home where she felt uneasy if the door was shut . |
| 25 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 26 | She wondered if she could think with what was left of her grey matter . |
| 27 | If she could think of a good reason to ask questions about the missing don among his colleagues , she might well come up with some interesting answers . |
| 28 | Which would be fine if she could think of anything even remotely amusing to say , she thought wryly . |
| 29 | He would n't look twice at a small-town girl , even if she could design wedding dresses . |
| 30 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |