Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] she [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than once she has been asked , without prior warning , to sit down there and then and play an instrument — usually for a film sequence — and she always complies without a flicker of nerves . |
| 2 | He moved lithely , carrying her with no more effort than if she 'd been a baby . |
| 3 | The bees just crawled over her , paying no more heed to her than if she had been a treestump . |
| 4 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 5 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 6 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 7 | There were so many more than when she had been here with Morthen . |
| 8 | Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired . |
| 9 | When she was fastened to my fist people really scared her , whereas if she had been free she would have been able to take evasive action . |
| 10 | Whereas before she had been a rough-and-ready Italian peasant , flashing with high spirits , now she thought a little about how she seemed to others and tempered her boisterous good humour . |
| 11 | It was not so much that she did not trust him as that she had been inhibited by her clerical superiors , Gilbert included . |
| 12 | She was trapped , as helpless as if she 'd been bound in chains . |
| 13 | She felt as much for that girl as if she had been her own flesh and blood . |
| 14 | But Lamprey had been as courteous as if she had been in her father 's drawing-room . |
| 15 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 16 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 17 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 18 | Jessamy jumped back as quickly as if she had been shot . |
| 19 | He stood back to look down the line of her figure under the flimsy nightgown , his eyes caressing her as blatantly as if she had been naked . |
| 20 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 21 | Though Maggie was eighteen , tall and attractive , she was still as much in awe of Moran as when she had been a child . |
| 22 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 23 | She looked the same as when she had been twenty-nine , before the birth of the child . |
| 24 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 25 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 26 | The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean . |
| 27 | ‘ Why , Gloria , my dear ! ’ said one of the ladies , putting aside her soup-dish and hurrying across the wide room to welcome them almost , but not quite , as though she had been expecting them . |
| 28 | It was as though she had been swept aside , neglected , and Blattern took note of these things , and would rejoice because Alida Thorne had received no letter , was an unwanted woman . |
| 29 | It was as though her father had died again , as though she had been injured to her soul . |
| 30 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |