Example sentences of "if it [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Xanthe spoke the word carefully , caressingly , Miranda noted , as if it might snap at her if she did n't handle it well . |
| 2 | Steve shrugged as if it might usher the whole evening away if he was lucky . |
| 3 | Simon Franks stood in the basement corridor and shook Blanche 's hand gingerly , as if it might crumble . |
| 4 | The white chair looks soluble , as if it might crumble , collapsing into a pile of infinitesimal white flakes . |
| 5 | Tess thought a good deal about the baptism , however , and wondered if it might mean that Sorrow could be buried in the churchyard , with a church service . |
| 6 | At last it looked as though her fee was guaranteed — even if it might mean being constantly shadowed by Guido . |
| 7 | It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style . |
| 8 | There was a faint sticky feeling to it , as if it might trap you if you tried to struggle against it — but no one would want to struggle against this , thought Fenella , bemused with delight . |
| 9 | But if it might stop a massacre … ’ |
| 10 | She had a glass of gin in her hand , but she was not drinking it , just holding it as if it might offer her the cheer and support that she might not otherwise find elsewhere . |
| 11 | She stared bleakly at the damask cloth she had traced her fingers over as if it might hold the answer to what she should do with the rest of her life after tonight . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be a dreadful abuse of the sacrament , ’ she said , ‘ but I wonder if it might explain why Dersingham gave Hereward the living , which ’ — she concluded — ‘ everyone seems to agree , needs some explanation . |
| 13 | If it might benefit Kirsty for him to know what had really happened between herself and Ryan , would she be justified in breaking her promise ? |
| 14 | Number 12a is a small building that looks as if it might house an unskilled worker with a large family . |
| 15 | The proposition that fax was invented by a Scot in the middle of the 19th century sounds rather as if it might come from the repertoire of E. L. Wisty , a companion piece to such wisdoms as " Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented the compact disc ? " |
| 16 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 17 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 18 | It had a sort of changing-room summer house , and a brick building that looked hopefully as if it might have something to do with heating the water . |
| 19 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 20 | I think he secretly always wondered if it might have been more entertaining . |
| 21 | He was thankful she was n't wearing boots but her hair had disappeared again under an awful black felt hat that looked as if it might have been her father 's , and when she handed her coat in at the cloakroom she kept the hat on . |
| 22 | It would have been far better to have at least made the attempt — even if it might have ended in disaster — than be left with such intense regrets and nostalgia for what might have been . |
| 23 | ‘ I found this on the floor — I wondered if it might have fallen out of his pocket . ’ |
| 24 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 25 | It seemed such a bizarre exchange after two decades of silence that he repeated her name — ‘ Sue ? ’ — as if it might turn out not to be her after all . |
| 26 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 27 | Yes I wonder if it might help you sir if I erm if I submit a copy of the plan ? |
| 28 | ‘ Eastern Europe ’ sounds as if it might include the unreforming Soviet Union . |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't have the details though — we do n't know if it might include the replacement of schools or whether it has to be directed at education in different ways . ’ |
| 30 | Geoffrey Smith , and his associates Michael Mackett and Bernard Moss , have been experimenting with the possibility of modifying vaccinia to make a vaccine against hepatitis B — a major health problem in the Third World — and it is beginning to look as if it might work ( Nature , vol 302 , p 490 ) . |