Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] her [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nice thing about Matilda was that if you had met her casually and talked to her you would have thought she was a perfectly normal five-and-a-half-year-old child . |
| 2 | ‘ A girl as attractive as Iris Sunderby , if you 'd got her alone in your hacienda … ’ |
| 3 | She might not be alive now if we 'd left her there . ’ |
| 4 | She was shaking as she lurched back , almost as if he had thrust her away from him . |
| 5 | He was beginning to wonder if he had treated her unfairly . |
| 6 | She felt as if he had led her out of darkness into light . |
| 7 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 8 | If he had taken her here on the couch a few minutes ago , as he had so nearly done , their abandonment to passion then would have been a mutual — equal — thing , but now he was back to being the dominant partner in what remained of their relationship , controlling it and her . |
| 9 | Last time had been so traumatic ; what if he had put her off him for life ? |
| 10 | It was as if he had opened her up in some way . |
| 11 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 12 | He was standing there as if he 'd dismissed her already . |
| 13 | If he 'd picked her up and laid her on the bed and taken her with all the passion and strength his virile body was promising her at that moment , she would n't have raised a finger to stop him , so when he swung her around in his arms and deposited her nearer to the bathroom door before removing his arms from her she was left gasping with surprise and a sinking feeling of disappointment mixed with humiliation which shook her with its intensity . |
| 14 | If anyone had told her then that one day she would join the royal family she would have run a mile . |