Example sentences of "if she [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she crooked her precious little finger you 'd be running . |
| 2 | ‘ Sounds as if she killed herself then ’ Maxim deduced . |
| 3 | She thought that she would probably like her very much if she met her properly . |
| 4 | Was there a chance that those painful feelings could surface once more if she met him again ? |
| 5 | If she wished him away then he might die and it would be her fault . |
| 6 | Fabia felt it might be a touch cruel to laugh at him again but , feeling certain he would run a mile if she took him seriously , she was a little nonplussed about how to answer him . |
| 7 | ‘ I think there 's opium in it , Anne , and if she took it too often it would n't help when she really needed it . |
| 8 | Rosalind would be very cross if she took it home unposted after paying her to send it ! |
| 9 | She hid the cutting in the cocktail cabinet in the prop-room — if she took it home Uncle Vernon might get his hands on it and embarrass her by reading it out to the commercial travellers . |
| 10 | But she was insane if she took it seriously . |
| 11 | The more he knew Sarah , the more he liked her , but he wondered if she saw him just as Anne 's sedate older brother , not part of the flirting casual crowd of her own age group as Terry was . |
| 12 | If she saw him now it would be quite different , of course . |
| 13 | So I left her £10 and asked her to please tell the warden if she saw her again so that he could call me with any news . |
| 14 | She had no intention of telling him that she would n't feel safe with him if she wore anything vaguely provocative . |
| 15 | A woman may feel that if she expressed herself honestly , she would not only lose her partner 's affection but her self-respect by being selfish and unfeminine . |
| 16 | " Jenny wanted to help me and she knew you 'd say no if she asked you outright . |
| 17 | She had the terrible feeling that if she told her too much , gave her an excuse to poke and pry , somehow , all the safe fabric of their lives would be rent apart . |
| 18 | If she left him long enough , sitting in the dark in the boathouse and thinking it over , perhaps he would never do anything wrong again . |
| 19 | When she had gone Scarlet began to peel courgettes , worrying the while whether she was not doing so prematurely : if she left them thus denuded , exposed to the air , they would discolour , while if she immersed them in water , their vitamin C content would dissipate . |
| 20 | All the same , they had now reached lot 50 ; if she left it much longer the chance would be gone . |
| 21 | ‘ If she married Mr. Gordon she 'd live at Longreen , so she could still be our Brown Owl , ’ argued Anita , ‘ but if she married somebody else and lived away she could n't go on being . ’ |
| 22 | " Is the hatch open ? " she asked , thinking he would be more at ease if she said something entirely practical . |
| 23 | If she said it often enough it might be true . |
| 24 | She could see that he would lose his temper if she pressed him any further , and so she left it . |
| 25 | She was n't to wait for him if she had anything else to do . |
| 26 | If she understood it then , all was well . |
| 27 | She sometimes signed it over to me if she needed it urgently and had n't time to queue at the post office . |
| 28 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 29 | She recovered it and was about to slip it back into the book , when she realized that if she put it back in the wrong place , Mark might think she had been snooping . |
| 30 | Some woman journalist friend of his had a handicapped daughter and found she was entitled to virtually no help looking after her , whereas if she fostered someone else 's kid she got any number of handouts . |