Example sentences of "[that] if she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But so many people all her life had told her how wrong it was to hurt others , so Jezrael penned inside her the rage that crushed its poison outwards through the walls of her veins , not knowing the harm she would do herself , knowing only that if she killed Zulei she would be as bad as Zulei was . |
| 2 | There were reports that senior ministers were insisting that if she failed to secure outright victory , she should consult them before deciding to carry on . |
| 3 | And always she was haunted by the knowledge that if she failed her mother would lose her home . |
| 4 | She had the terrible feeling that if she told her too much , gave her an excuse to poke and pry , somehow , all the safe fabric of their lives would be rent apart . |
| 5 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 6 | Maggie knew that if she felt like that she 'd never say so . |
| 7 | Bernice was fairly sure that if she asked whether she was , at that moment , on a lumpy excrescence on a strand of spaghetti stretching into the Doctor 's future and surrounded by a soup of probabilities , she would n't like the answer . |
| 8 | The fabric was so delicate that if she wore it without a brassiere you could just see the outline of her nipples . |
| 9 | She was not in the least concerned at her mother 's solitary state but knew her to be so recently buffeted by events that she would not cavil at two visiting teenagers , although she had intimated to Sam that if she filled the house with them , she would kill herself . |
| 10 | She had hoped that Rosie Lane at least , who was usually willing to try anything once , would have accepted the challenge , but she demurred , pleading a headache , and Janice told her , in mysterious tones , as though provided with obscene , private information , that she would be mad to go to such a place , that it was rough there , and wicked beyond all Clara 's pitiful conceptions of wickedness , and that if she went there anything might happen to her . |
| 11 | She thought that if she went there while the maid was cleaning , Theresa and Anthony out at work , she could nick the netsukes if she was quick and clever , and the maid would not notice . |
| 12 | She says that if she went into schools and said she was going to talk abouty physics , kids would be bored . |
| 13 | Similarly , when trying to persuade his wife to meet Peter , Jacko argues that if she does not compromise , at least on this point , then their daughter will be lost to them forever . |
| 14 | Make sure , for example , that if she does not eat meat , she gets sufficient iron through other foods such as eggs , lentils and a variety of vegetables , so that anaemia is avoided . |
| 15 | I meet men now who say things like , ‘ I 'm worried that if she does n't get a move on , it 'll be too late . ’ |
| 16 | Yet it is hard to see why this defendant who has succeeded in terrorising a victim into submission should be any less guilty of rape than the man who threatens a woman that if she does not submit he will , there and then , overcome her resistance . |
| 17 | I said that I think you 'll find , Ron that Trudy if she married would have to give up her late husband 's occupational widow 's pension so that the way you 're going on now , where you go and stay with her for two or three days at a time is far better oh no , no , no , she 'll be able to keep her pension I said I very much doubt it then I said people are so jealous that if she does marry you and he does n't tell the firm I bet that one of her dear neighbours will oh no they 're all very nice people round where she lives , I thought there 's no good arguing with Ron ! |
| 18 | She realized that if she chose she could go all day without food and go to bed at any hour she liked . |
| 19 | I wonder if she 'd say that if she knew I was to blame ? he thought . |
| 20 | His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him . |
| 21 | And he got out of there fast , before she could see it , some masculine fear in him that if she knew how he felt she would use his vulnerability against him . |
| 22 | It occurred to him that if she belonged to Gary , there was nothing to stop him taking a sort of family ownership too . |
| 23 | Sarah realised that if she struck inwards into the undulating tracts of snow-blanketed moorland , she would soon lose her way . |
| 24 | She informed her great-granddaughter that if she filed for a divorce she would take Andrew 's side and say that what he had done in taking a mistress and in finally attempting suicide was because she had never acted as a wife to him . |
| 25 | A woman may feel that if she expressed herself honestly , she would not only lose her partner 's affection but her self-respect by being selfish and unfeminine . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , God , Hilly , yes ! ’ he laughed , and proceeded to demonstrate very ably that if she thought she had experienced all there was to experience she was sadly mistaken . |
| 27 | Her emotional upsets were beginning to take their toll , and she knew that if she thought about the hopelessness of her love for Silas she 'd begin to weep . |
| 28 | She had feared that if she made a claim for poor relief it would have meant the break-up of her family . |
| 29 | She had a severe struggle with herself , but decided that if she made a fuss she 'd just make him laugh even more at her . |
| 30 | Ranald fetched his harp , and he sang a story of a great selkie , one of the seal people , who loved a land maiden but warned her that if she took their son away from him , the baby would kill him when he grew up ; but in fear that her child would become a wild selkie himself she stole the baby and reared him inland as a normal man . |