Example sentences of "if she [verb] the " 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 According to Andrew , Eleanor 's verdict was that a woman would act less wisely if she chose the less worthy one .
4 And it 's really to provide , according to Derek , it 's to provide the Secretary of State with some ideas of costings of , if she decides the new careers services to run careers conventions , she would make that part of the specification and she would know how much that that was likely to cost her .
5 FitzAlan turned on her , flinging her off as if she carried the plague .
6 ‘ What if she uses the book the way Ward was going to ? ’ another voice added with concern .
7 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 …
8 She praised Princess Diana and claimed : ‘ If she ran the world , child abuse would n't exist any more . ’
9 ‘ What profiteth a woman if she gains the world — and loses her femininity ? ’
10 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 .
11 She behaved as if she owned the place .
12 Lesley Banks is n't sure if she likes the idea , but admits that the buzz around town has certainly opened doors for her .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 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
15 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 ’ ) .
16 The two doors were next to each other — would he notice if she took the wrong one ?
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Is post menopausal zest something that er every woman could look forward to if she gets the right advice , the right
20 She 'll watch it half an hour in the evening before she goes to bed if she gets the chance .
21 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 .
22 She , like other woman-centred psychologists , does not pursue this question , but she manages to write as if she knew the answer .
23 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 .
24 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 ?
25 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 .
26 ‘ 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 .
27 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 .
28 It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement .
29 If she heard the taxi , then she would know everything was all right .
30 I want to ask Sonja if she thinks the postman lost it , but I stop myself .
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