Example sentences of "if she would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two armies waited while messengers conveyed to Mary the offer of her rebel nobles to support her once more if she would discard her husband 's murderer . |
| 2 | Jack called Sandra and asked if she would appear in a Corman film that weekend . |
| 3 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 4 | Folly doubted if she would care what Luke got up to , but she gave her the flowers none the less . |
| 5 | I regularly asked Erica Brausen , the Hanover 's director , if she would visit my studio to see what I was up to but she never had time to take a taxi from Hanover Street to Highgate . |
| 6 | In the scorching heat she had felt as if she would pass out ; now she wished she had . |
| 7 | Asked if she would abandon her attempt if they became ill she replied that she could not say in advance , and pointed out that there would be eight doctors , including one paediatric specialist , immediately to hand . |
| 8 | She rubbed as if she would erase the images that flitted through her mind as she worked , like an unconnected pageant — the images , and the thoughts that crowded her mind around them . |
| 9 | Could this be Leif , calling to advise that the Rocha kitchen would include her tiles and asking if she would confer with the solicitor 's wife ? |
| 10 | She signed it because her husband pressed her to do so and told her he was being pressed by Campbell , and because she believed that if she would sign it … it would enable her husband to settle the beer contract . … |
| 11 | She remains in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary under observation but a hospital spokesman could not say if she would remain there a second night . |
| 12 | He said he 'd mentioned her name there and promised to ask her if she would go to help them . |
| 13 | She leaned for support against the wing of the car , breathless and trembling , wondering if she would scream or vomit . |
| 14 | ‘ And I think that someone would like to dance it with me , ’ she said , as Herman , lured by the smile , came across and with a ludicrous bow , asked Erika if she would do him the honour of the dance , Erika graciously accepting , to her delight leaving Fritz looking disconsolate and unhappy . |
| 15 | He would be very grateful if she would do just that . |
| 16 | I 'd skirt around the light cast from the windows and sometimes I 'd sit and watch her to see if she would do anything interesting . |
| 17 | There was an ache in her solar plexus , growing and expanding , until she felt as if she would explode with the pain of her suppressed emotions . |
| 18 | She had an impression of being lifted up from the bed — she had cried out in agony , feeling as if she would break in half — and laid upon a stretcher . |
| 19 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 20 | She clasped her daughter 's hand in despair , as if she would pull her back from the falsely-beckoning light . |
| 21 | For a moment it seemed as if she would pull away from him , then she nodded , and , still weeping , allowed herself to be led away . |
| 22 | He was to attend a conference of staff officers and , on arrival , he asked her if she would collect him again at five p.m . |
| 23 | One day Hugh came into the bathroom while Myra was washing and offered to give her a present if she would give him a hug and a kiss . |
| 24 | I was able to follow up that evening , for my father gave me a lovely chrysanthemum bloom from his greenhouse and the next day I took it to her home and asked her mother , who opened the door to my rather nervous knock , if she would give it to her daughter . |
| 25 | She was damned if she would give in so easily . |
| 26 | " Christ , " said Faye violently , " what utter bloody shit , " and she even held out her pretty hands , clawed to show slender nails painted bright red , as if she would scratch the pictures off the walls . |
| 27 | Turning away hurriedly , she caught sight of the bed , and wondered if she would sleep there alone tonight , or if the choice was even hers to make . |
| 28 | Later in the evening , standing beside a huge rhododendron that dominated one whole corner of the garden , Edward asked Hannele if she would sleep with him . |
| 29 | I said that if she would leave it with the bill at her hall-porter 's desk , she could trust me to take it and leave the money without attempting to see her . |
| 30 | After that she went into service and there she stayed until , when she was about twenty-two years of age , her brother came to tell her he was married and to ask her if she would leave her employer and come to look after his wife who was expecting a baby . |