Example sentences of "if she did not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet if she did not speak … |
| 2 | If she did not speak the truth now , she was guilty of perjury . |
| 3 | Miss Danziger put more pressure on the pedals ; she knew that if she did not reach Sandweg before the force of the wind had accumulated its full strength , she would have very hard work before her . |
| 4 | I asked her if she did not feel deprived , having never experienced school life . |
| 5 | Especially when after one who had seduced a mother of three , and had got what he wanted , threatened her by blackmail of telling a brutal husband about this if she did not continue the association . |
| 6 | Her husband then became extremely emotional and said that if she did not sign , the whole company would go bankrupt and their son John would lose his home as well . |
| 7 | He made an emotional scene on the day she signed and told her that , if she did not sign , the company would be bankrupt and her son John would lose his home . |
| 8 | Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , Ms Craig ! ’ she exclaimed , rushing forward with outstretched hands as if afraid Melissa would vanish if she did not lay hold of her . |
| 10 | In spate it was a terrifying torrent which uprooted whole trees and smashed them to driftwood ; in drought it was an evil-tempered stream which grudged them water and tugged the pots from her hands if she did not hold them with all her strength . |
| 11 | She obviously would not have travelled such a huge distance if she did not hold out hope for the relationship , and Charity wanted to respect that . |
| 12 | I find on the balance of probabilities that if she did not achieve the necessary results for entry to college in the Summer of nineteen eighty seven , she would have achieved such grades by using the year Summer nineteen eighty seven to Summer nineteen eighty eight to re-site whatever was necessary . |
| 13 | Besides , if she did not talk to him at all , ever , then she talked to nobody , unless you counted her communication with Aunt Margaret ; and her loneliness was unbearable . |
| 14 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 15 | However , whilst agreeing they might not be annoyed with her , she thought she would feel guilty if she did not start tea until 6 p.m . |
| 16 | If she did not tread on any of the black , perhaps when she got to the end of the floor she would shiver and rouse in her own long-lost bed , in her striped sheets , and say good morning to the apple tree and look at her own face in the mirror she had not broken . |
| 17 | If she did not return to the Lodge she might never experience such terror again , but the memory of it would never leave her . |
| 18 | In fact , the gurus of the East teach that the goldfish might well have been your great , great grandmother in a previous existence if she did not make the grade as a human being . |
| 19 | It seemed to Charlotte as if she did not sleep at all that night , though her subsequent recollections of dreaming about telephones and disembodied voices suggested otherwise . |
| 20 | If she did not eat it was due to her feeling nauseous because of her condition . |
| 21 | Yet if she did not marry Paul , and had the baby , things would be worse rather than better . |
| 22 | If she did not marry directly she finished training , which was highly probable , as she liked the lads as much as they liked her , before long she would be a Sister Tutor . |
| 23 | Lydia is ignorant of the ensuing scandal that would result if she did not marry Wickham . |
| 24 | They would be angry with her if she did not go . |
| 25 | She knew that he would cause a scene on her when he came in if she did not go out to talk to him . |
| 26 | But if she did not love him , if she was contemptuous of all the things they 'd had … that was unbearable . |
| 27 | It was as if she did not want him there . |
| 28 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 29 | Paul walked away , determination in his gait ; if she did not reply to this note , he would send others until she did . |
| 30 | To Mary , reading that if she did not do so , ‘ this pre-eminence wherein ye are placed shall be your dejection to torment and pain everlasting ’ , it looked more like the kind of bullying to which , on his own account , he would later subject her daughter . |