Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 Violette asked Katherine if she could use her room to freshen up a little .
3 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 .
4 Would ask Shang Chen if she could work an extra hour this end of her shift and leave an hour earlier .
5 While Oliver talked to Mrs Bedwin , Rose asked Mr Brownlow if she could speak to him privately .
6 She did not want any more of Scott Fitzgerald if she could help it .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 who I 've , cos she said to Mr if she could bring a camera for us to camcord
10 Erm I 'll ask Vicki if she can remember .
11 We 'll have to ask Mrs if she 'll go and see the main
12 Patsy asked Mrs Hogan if she 'd like her to wet another pot of tea .
13 Now , perhaps , you will ask Miss Garland if she will see me . ’
14 At five o'clock I said to Chris I said , How about if I ask Cindy if she can help .
15 I ask Irene if she will get better if the grief will subside .
16 I was thinking of asking Monica if she could record something from the the Model Car Club and
17 I want to ask Miss Everdene if she 'd like to be married . ’
18 ‘ And I think that someone would like to dance it with me , ’ she said , as Herman , lured by the smile , came across and with a ludicrous bow , asked Erika if she would do him the honour of the dance , Erika graciously accepting , to her delight leaving Fritz looking disconsolate and unhappy .
19 Later in the evening , standing beside a huge rhododendron that dominated one whole corner of the garden , Edward asked Hannele if she would sleep with him .
20 ‘ They got down to forty-five-second intervals , and I asked Gabrielle if she 'd mind not giving birth until the end of the episode , but she told me to find a nurse — fast .
21 When , in 1979 , Sir Nicholas Henderson was posted to Washington and within two weeks of moving was told that the new Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , was to visit , Mary Henderson wasted no time in asking Laura if she could supply certain fabrics at cost price with immediate delivery ; Laura naturally obliged .
22 Mrs Mawdsley then asked administration manager Dave McCreary if she could take two weeks ' annual leave and a week 's unpaid leave to go on holiday .
23 ‘ David ’ asked Joan if she would infiltrate the loyalist paramilitary organisations to find out where they hid their arms or ammunition .
24 If that 's what yer want yer 'd better ask Annie if she 'd consider workin' all day instead o' jus ' the mornin 's . ’
25 The coroner then asked Mrs James if she could recognise the same man in court .
26 And with this in mind she returned to the reception desk to ask Stella if she could use the phone .
27 Then she picked up her internal telephone and , very civilly , asked Clare if she could spare her half an hour or so — yes , before the meeting ; yes , as soon as possible .
28 She asked Clare if she could go to her room .
29 If Anne could catch sight of Rhoda , she would say something , but she was loathe to speak to John if she could help it .
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