Example sentences of "if she [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 2 | For the first time she began to wonder if she 'd been foolhardy — no matter how strong her desire to get away , she should n't have put her own safety at risk . |
| 3 | Mala sprang from her sear as if she 'd been electro-jolted . |
| 4 | Jane reflected that if she 'd been enormous , with masses of stomach and bust up front , Lajos might have thought twice about bashing her . |
| 5 | She fled home on the underground , scolding herself for being such a coward , it could all be over now if she 'd been sensible . |
| 6 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 7 | That was not strictly true , though she might have scraped by if she 'd been prepared to go into debt . |
| 8 | But now she wondered if she 'd been wrong — or , at least , only partly right . |
| 9 | But what if she 'd been wrong in that — what if there were other things he wanted to do ? |
| 10 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 11 | She looked drowsy , as if she had been asleep . |
| 12 | One mother claimed : ‘ She would not have said such a thing if she had been married . |
| 13 | In his dozing he wondered if she had been bored with him . |
| 14 | After putting a trial foot several times in the river , Harriet launched herself and swam as if she had been used to water all her life . |
| 15 | If she had been cheerful , she would grow sad , and if she had been depressed , she would grow bad-tempered . |
| 16 | If she had been rational enough to tell him something it certainly would n't have been that . |
| 17 | How would her mother have taken it if she had been alive ? |
| 18 | Joan Durbeyfield , watching , wondered for the first time if she had been right in encouraging Tess to go . |
| 19 | The rockdust prevented her from seeing if she had been successful in her kill . |
| 20 | She would have reacted in exactly the same way if she had been stone-cold sober and standing in a bare room under a fluorescent light . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 23 | If she had been unfaithful it would have been tricky to intervene . |
| 24 | If she had been angry before , she was twice as angry now . |
| 25 | If she had been wrong about him … ? |
| 26 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 27 | And what monumental arrogance — to think that an evening in his company would be enough to wean her away from Rob — that was if she had been interested in Rob in the first place ! |
| 28 | Her face was pale , far paler than he remembered , as if she had been ill . |
| 29 | ‘ It leaves a hell of a hangover , ’ said Mrs Ridley , and Lee felt relieved as if she had been ashamed of her suffering and had had it authenticated at last . |
| 30 | 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 . |