Example sentences of "[noun] if she [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In this case you should apply to Christine no fewer than three days in advance , and she may reset your card if she feels that this action is justified .
2 I asked her whether high buildings bothered her and she said she would feel fear if she looked up at them .
3 Making lunch for Lucy and Francis , giving her lifts here and there when her car was off the road , calling her just to see how she was , ordering her home when she looked exhausted , plying her with remedies if she had a cold , rubbing her back if she was tense .
4 He agreed to pay them but told Gina she must give some Italian lessons or something in future if she wanted to treat herself to things like that .
5 He wrote the part so that she could always support herself in exile if she did n't speak the language . ’
6 He 'd threatened her with the direst reprisals if she dared to leave their suite , not guessing that wild horses would n't drag her away until she 'd cleared the whole matter up .
7 Elizabeth took no part in this discussion and Lydia wondered whether it was her imagination or whether Elizabeth had the air of someone who could say a great deal if she chose .
8 Would that passionless person mind if she got bad notices ?
9 It might not be to everyone 's taste or be able to last for hundreds of years but you have to admit that she would turn a few heads if she appeared sitting casually in your garden .
10 Friends may refrain from expressing any sympathy because they feel that it might be inappropriate and embarrassing for her , and she may be feeling that people will regard her as a hypocrite if she gives way and weeps , although she may need to do this for a variety of reasons , one of them being not so much for what she has lost , but for what she never had .
11 Joan asked whether her brother would be charged with murder if she did not work for them .
12 She refused the cold remains of the fish and chips , so he took the whole package out to the dustbin at the front of the house ( no need to worry her about the Sweet murder if she did n't know — and it appeared she did n't ) .
13 You can be sure that a woman must have big and thick labia if she has a big mouth and thick lips .
14 It was n't her fault if she had a gift for putting her foot in it .
15 In my hon. Friend the Minister 's view , what would be the effect on the economy and inward investment if she abolished the ceiling on national insurance , increased the ordinary rate and basic rate of tax for a third of the population in the south-east and introduced a higher rate of value added tax on luxury products — all measures proposed by the Labour party ?
16 I want to try and get it done , bearing in mind Elaine 's going to have to have the baby on Friday if she has n't had it before .
17 He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't .
18 ‘ I can show you an excellent view of the town , ’ he pressed , his smile dipping for all the world as if he would take it as a personal tragedy if she refused .
19 He was out there , just beyond the window , entertaining a beautiful woman on his luxury yacht , and she felt pain , and desperation and an ache and envy she would n't wish on her worst enemy if she had one .
20 Go and ask mummy if she wants any tea .
21 I want to ask Sonja if she thinks the postman lost it , but I stop myself .
22 Miss Crawford would probably stand a much better chance of becoming an actress if she stopped talking about it and started to do the necessary work to bring about her ambition .
23 In this poem , Leapor argues that happiness in marriage is available to Octavia if she chooses wisely .
24 She risked standing , poised to duck back under the slab of rock if she saw even the shadow of a movement .
25 And Miss Lilian will be here to take her a nice little something on a tray if she wakes before we 're back .
26 Mrs Currie says she does not agree with the ‘ dual mandate ’ — politicians sitting both at Westminster and Strasbourg , and intends resigning her Westminster seat if she makes it to Strasbourg .
27 Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't .
28 Probably because Rome had no alternative if she hoped to establish her dominion over Ireland at all .
29 And it could fill an awkward gap if she has dumped any photos of her estranged husband Mick Jagger .
30 Apart from the question of winning , Nutty kept having nightmares about the money they owed Biddy if she chose to press the debt .
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