Example sentences of "if she [vb mod] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if she 'll ever get out . |
| 2 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 3 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 4 | He wondered if she would indeed try to seduce him . |
| 5 | If she would only realise that she would have confided in me now . ’ |
| 6 | He thought for a moment that if she would only accept his feelings for Carrie he would go to her this minute and put his arms about her and comfort her , but he knew she would never accept Carrie . |
| 7 | And if she would only let me have Annie round ’ — his thumb was wagging again — ‘ the place would be spotless . ’ |
| 8 | But she did not know if she would ever want to make love to Tom . |
| 9 | The main part of the school was considerably more attractive , being a red-brick residence , rambling but characterful , built for the vendor of wine and spirits in the last years of the Old Queen , when people were beginning to wonder if she would ever go . |
| 10 | He wondered if she would ever regret it , and thought not . |
| 11 | She took up a late cancellation for a holiday and photographed the leaning tower of Pisa ; in Florence sat drinking a cappuccino near the Piazza San Felice , thinking of those two English lovers , the Browning poets , who had lived there ; threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome , wondering if she would ever come back . |
| 12 | She gave her letter to the postman with a heavy heart , wondering if she would ever see her sister again . |
| 13 | Now those roses reminded her of Gerry , who had pasted them there , and she wondered if she would ever find the courage to scrape them off . |
| 14 | He threw her hand contemptuously from him and she rubbed it , wondering if she would ever get rid of the impression of his fingers . |
| 15 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 16 | Emmie shivered as if she would never stop . |
| 17 | She felt as if she would never need sleep again . |
| 18 | But at least he is here , she thought , and wondered if she would really have tried to get into the Workshops by herself if she had had to . |
| 19 | I mean , why did n't she tell me the truth , I can understand you know , I could , you know , I could perha if she 'd just tell me the truth you know tell me why she 's u , what she 's up to and that . |
| 20 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 21 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
| 22 | For a moment I wondered if she 'd fully come round from the carbon monoxide . |
| 23 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 24 | I began to wonder if she 'd still have the same effect on you . ’ |
| 25 | Turning her back defiantly on him , she peered at the timetable , wondering despairingly if she 'd ever decipher it before she froze where she stood . |
| 26 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 27 | Perhaps she wondered if she 'd ever get out . ’ |
| 28 | Gabriel Gasbag — As thick as a proverbial brick , possesses hardly any intelligence ( it 's doubtful if she can even spell the word ) . |
| 29 | Going to help to develop her things if she can already do it ! |
| 30 | Hand her a tea-strainer and see if she can carefully lift out all the fish . |