Example sentences of "[prep] if she " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he knew that Marama , because of her title , would always be looked after if she stayed on Koraloona , so it would be wrong of him to be selfish and expect her to live in semi-starvation on a strange island . |
| 2 | ‘ What about if she does say no and sticks to it , finally ? ’ said Dionne . |
| 3 | How about how about if she had erm say just the two of us |
| 4 | what about if she lets us keep the walkman |
| 5 | what about if she lets us keep the walkman 's |
| 6 | The new Lady Woodleigh looked as if she might take her riding-crop to him if he so much as uttered another word . |
| 7 | She was n't saying anything , but Ma smiled at her as if she had done something very clever . |
| 8 | I caught sight of Claire , bright red in the face , looking as if she were about to burst into tears . |
| 9 | Trust Claire to act as if she were the centre of attention . |
| 10 | Nanny is definitely a ‘ Lower Breed ’ , but she does n't act as if she knows it . |
| 11 | She was a plain woman with the apparent placidity of the overweight , but she did n't look as if she missed much . |
| 12 | The blessed night , even alone , brought Jay an awareness of her body , as if she were phosphorescent with stars and meteorites . |
| 13 | as if she cared ! |
| 14 | All this came from Lucy in a rush , as if she was giving the background to someone else 's story . |
| 15 | Lucy lit another cigarette , drank her wine , and her voice came out as if she was reading a script . |
| 16 | ‘ Honey , it hurt , ’ said Lucy as if she was joking , ‘ and went septic . |
| 17 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 18 | Jeff loves it ; he strokes his hand over her head as if she were a child . |
| 19 | ‘ Foreigners have no God , ’ she claimed , as if she wanted to weaken my resolve and then , correcting herself and asking God 's pardon , she changed this to ‘ Our God , the God of Islam , is different from theirs in the West . ’ |
| 20 | It was as if she had vanished off the face of the earth , ’ Anthony Palmer , for the prosecution , said . |
| 21 | Mrs Wilks 's body lay twisted , as if she had rolled . |
| 22 | That seemed all right , but over dinner Alison began to act oddly — as if she was enjoying herself — so I scowled at her and asked her what the problem was . |
| 23 | It was as if she had fallen out of a generous sky . |
| 24 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 25 | You need have no fear facing the world , ’ as if she were already clearly seeing her happiness and her children in the fullness of the years . |
| 26 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 27 | We can read into Las Meninas such a view of the Habsburgs ( Fig. 8 ) : Philip IV and Mariana are merely reflections , living in a world of grotesquerie and make-believe ; a tiny princess dressed as an adult with a skirt so stiff it makes her look as if she is on wheels , surrounded by curtseying maids , a dwarf , a midget , a huge dog with the ability to sleep through anything , and a great artist , aloof and all-powerful . |
| 28 | So when her son married and his wife had a baby girl she felt as if she 'd regained the daughter she 'd lost . |
| 29 | She looks as if she 's made of man-made fibres you see . |
| 30 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |