Example sentences of "[subord] she [vb past] or [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I see a wonderful phrase like William Waldegrave is like without the jokes I think now I wonder if she thought or said that ? |
| 2 | If she asked or noticed it , he would blame it on the college refusal . |
| 3 | Catherine and he still spent time together , when he was not working in the fields , but he no longer expressed his fondness for her in words , and he looked angry if she touched or kissed him . |
| 4 | Nobody cared if she lived or died . |
| 5 | In those circumstances , if she returned or offered to return , her husband 's liability to maintain her would revive . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're not sure if she jumped or fell , ’ said a coastguard . |
| 7 | She had crossed it once before , but she knew it would be much more risky today , because the recent heavy rains would have made the surface gluey , and if she slipped or made a false step she might find herself caught and held in the treacly morass of the marsh . |
| 8 | She had no way of telling how deep it was , but it was narrow enough to support her easily if she slipped or lost her hold . |
| 9 | It was n't as if she wanted or needed his complete understanding . |
| 10 | And while she walked or sat with him , she thought , pondered her life , dredged up scenes , remembered . |
| 11 | And now he found himself wondering whether she knew or guessed about Amy . |
| 12 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 13 | She had said nothing , nothing at all to reveal to him how she took the idea of Florence Ames , whether she cared or did not care . |
| 14 | When seen the next morning in hospital , Pamela said she had not cared whether she lived or died when she took the overdose , but had hoped that it would show her parents how upset she was feeling about her school work , and that it might also persuade them to change their attitudes to her boyfriend . |
| 15 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 16 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 17 | What could she say to him except that she felt her life — their life together — slipping away ; that whether she survived or slid wearily from her broken body , there was no longer any prospect of happiness for them ; that he should forget her and make his own world without her ? |
| 18 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 19 | But when she heard or saw nothing more , she dropped the net drape back into place , to disappear once more into the darkness of her house . |
| 20 | She 'd give that up when she pleased or die an old maid . |