Example sentences of "if she [vb past] [pron] else " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | She was n't to wait for him if she had anything else to do . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If she did nothing else , she had to explain the one half-truth that , to her distraught mind , was the most damaging . |
| 5 | If she did nothing else she was going to make sure his statement was vindicated . |
| 6 | Mass unemployment during the 1920s and 1930s modified opinion somewhat , although the economist F. Y. Edgeworth opposed the idea of family allowances in 1922 on the grounds that they would encourage male idleness and quoted approvingly the comment of a social worker in 1908 , who said ‘ if the husband got out of work the only thing that the wife should do is sit down and cry , because if she did anything else he would remain out of work ’ . |