Example sentences of "if she could [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old woman lay in her hammock , sleeping ; it was a time when she had taken a heavy dose , and he was able to lead Ariel out and let her walk before him , now and then turning to make sure he was not about to do something to her , put a halter on her or hit her , and she made for the fence and pointed over it and asked him with her hands and eyes if she could go there , beyond the stockade , into the receding forest , where the bromeliads pushed out their stiff blades , and the monkeys nibbled at mango fruits and threw them down when they were unripe with tiny rows of toothmarks like some sharp-fanged fairy child 's , where the birds of many colours screeched . |
| 2 | and then , if she could shake enough |
| 3 | She stripped off her clothes and dropped them where they fell , then ran a bath and climbed into it , scouring her skin over and over with a loofah as if she could wash away the memory of his body on hers . |
| 4 | It sounds as if she could cope all right on her own . ’ |
| 5 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 6 | Her mother had telephoned her at the nurses ' home where she had been living and had asked her if she could come home . |
| 7 | A shy and tentative smile came to the girl 's face and then she turned and went out of the room , walking as surely and as gracefully as if she could see just like everyone else . |
| 8 | If she could find somewhere dry , she would be able to go on the offensive . |
| 9 | Glancing at her watch , she wondered if she could slip away soon without giving offence to Edward and Helen . |
| 10 | It might well give her a better perspective on things if she could get right away for a short time . |
| 11 | But on her lucky nights she would benefit slightly , if she could get away with it , from defecting — refusing to donate blood . |
| 12 | Hunting through her case for some lightweight shoes , and wondering if she could get away without having to wear any stockings , she gritted her teeth as she heard her name being called from the other room . |
| 13 | If she could get there before the long closure for lunch-hour he would make her up a preparation , and Peony could get it back to her mother and possibly get back again to the harbour for the Swimming Gala . |