Example sentences of "[noun] if she [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask Lina if she 'd like to come up and help out for a few weeks ? |
| 2 | She obviously does not want to go above her starting weight if she can help it . |
| 3 | Ask mummy if she 'd like one . |
| 4 | Ask mummy if she 'd like a chocolate . |
| 5 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 6 | Moira said she would ask her parents if she could have a drink with him . |
| 7 | Well she ca n't be much cop if she 'd open her legs to a first date to a Dutch s sailor . |
| 8 | If a wife is going to be out all day and her husband refuses to help in the home , she may have to consider arranging or paying for help if she can afford to — in order to do what she wants to do . |
| 9 | Violette asked Katherine if she could use her room to freshen up a little . |
| 10 | The centre 's director , David Chi , asked the princess if she could use chopsticks and she demonstrated her ability with a flourish before turning her back on photographers and popping the pancake in her mouth . |
| 11 | to find out from her if it comes to it we can perhaps ask the old lady if she can set something up where |
| 12 | He asks a young girl if she would like to be Alice in Wonderland . |
| 13 | Generally Ruth slept up here , although now and then she would come politely to ask Rachaela if she could stay the night on Emma 's sofa . |
| 14 | Elisabeth already felt herself rebuked in the presence of Fru Møller and the Colonel — over matters beyond her control — and she was not going to add to that burden of disapproval if she could avoid it ; not again . |
| 15 | He dropped Jessica off at the harbour , because it was so beautiful and there was that little bar if she should get fractious . |
| 16 | Would ask Shang Chen if she could work an extra hour this end of her shift and leave an hour earlier . |
| 17 | While Oliver talked to Mrs Bedwin , Rose asked Mr Brownlow if she could speak to him privately . |
| 18 | She got wearily out of the car and tramped across the car park to the reception lobby , where she asked the receptionist with peroxided hair if she could phone the AA . |
| 19 | That would have some benefit in the forthcoming election if she could push it through . |
| 20 | She did not want any more of Scott Fitzgerald if she could help it . |
| 21 | She waited for Jean , his girlfriend , to go to the Ladies , and then pounced , flirting madly and manoeuvring him into bartering with her that he would buy two whole strips if she would have a dance with him . |
| 22 | Furthermore , certain commercial practices such as ‘ meeting competition clauses ’ , ‘ most favoured nation ’ ( MFN ) clauses , and tie-ins that release the buyer if she can find a lower price supplier elsewhere can serve both to ensure information-sharing about discounts and price-cutting and to give ( in the case of MFN clauses ) an incentive not to cut price ( see Salop , 1985 ) . |
| 23 | One day Hugh came into the bathroom while Myra was washing and offered to give her a present if she would give him a hug and a kiss . |
| 24 | on Tuesday to see what she was doing that 's of course if she can get . |
| 25 | In one of her first school plays where she played a Dutch doll , Diana only agreed to take the part if she could remain silent . |
| 26 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 27 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 28 | She may look like mother , but mother would have turned in her grave if she could have seen that girl today ! ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She was living hand to mouth and she would n't spare the cash if she could help it . |