Example sentences of "if [pron] [vb past] her " in BNC.
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1 | I did like Esmerelda ( even if I thought her name was a bit soppy ) and played with her a lot when she came to stay . |
2 | Maybe if I got her outfit I 'd get her husky voice to match ? |
3 | But if she restrained her imagination and waited until he showed his hand , surely the misunderstanding could be cleared up and they could part as friends ? she thought forlornly . |
4 | But on the picket line Bob Busby had pointed out to her that the Shadow Scheme was official University business and that she would be strike-breaking if she kept her appointment . |
5 | If she kept her beak wet , she could go on forever . |
6 | If she kept her eyes open the car very often failed to start . |
7 | Rourke could not hurt her if she kept her distance . |
8 | Ms Streisand , in the same paper , claimed that the press would be happier if she spent her free time shopping , and pointed out , quite fairly , that she and the others at the correspondents ' dinner had been invited there . |
9 | If she took her problem to Rachel , Rachel would listen and she would be on Maggie 's side . |
10 | ‘ If she took her poor child back to his father and gave her husband a second chance , she would n't need money . ’ |
11 | But , as if she knew her life depended on it , Bunny had attached herself to her . |
12 | She should have done so ages ago ; and if she knew her friend as well as she thought she did , then she would be intrigued and delighted by the whole affair . |
13 | She would tell her twin about Berenice 's baby , and if she knew her sister , she would make Garry see he must return to his wife . |
14 | The relief was immense and she wondered if she plunged her brain into the water it would help too . |
15 | But she did n't let him see , keeping her face as unresponsive as if she wore her mask still . |
16 | This was exactly what she had been afraid of — flibbertigibbet though she was in most things , Candy could be positively terrier-like if she got her teeth into a mystery , refusing to let go until she 'd solved everything to her satisfaction . |
17 | In spite of this , the tree would not stand up , yet when asked if she thought her tree was balanced she said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
18 | If she thought her troubles would be over when and if I caught up with the blackmailer , she was way off . |
19 | If she made her estate more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds there 'd be some tax payable , so it 's a question of how much you 've got and both estates have got that exemption of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
20 | A large colourful greetings card , propped in one corner , skewed slightly , so that , if she craned her neck slightly , she could read the message written inside . |
21 | Walking to the door , Sabine wondered detachedly what the reaction would be if she voiced her unspoken thought aloud , but decided not to risk it . |
22 | Yet if she voiced her objections it would only serve to alert him to how uneasy she felt . |
23 | as if she felt her sister 's gaze , Susan swung round on the piano-stool and asked her to sing come carols . |
24 | If she told her father , then as soon as he was away there would be a worse incident . |
25 | She had been ‘ petrified ’ she would lose her boyfriend if she told him and feared if she told her employers , she would lose the job she loved . |
26 | She put it off because Christmas was coming up , and then Tony her boyfriend wanted to take her to Paris and she knew if she revealed her pregnancy she would n't be allowed to go , so she said nothing . |
27 | The questions she had feared earlier seemed to be taking physical shape in the shadowy corners of the room , phantoms waiting to trap her if she dropped her guard for so much as a second . |
28 | With luck , she should — if she followed her usual pattern — remain in bed until around noon . |
29 | And always she was haunted by the knowledge that if she failed her mother would lose her home . |
30 | If she released her grasp , she would have nothing left . |