Example sentences of "[coord] if she could " in BNC.

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1 Never having seen Jack suture , she wondered if she ought to call the fascio-maxillary surgeon over from the Norfolk and Norwich , or if she could , indeed , trust Jack to do a decent job .
2 He decided to write home asking his mother how everything was back at Gibbet Hall and if she could come to visit him , or even better take him away .
3 His mother the dowager Queen Isabella survived until 1358 and if she could transmit title to Edward III , why could not Jeanne of Navarre , Louis X 's daughter , or any of the daughters of Philip V do likewise ?
4 Some folk in the village said it was a public disgrace that a maid like Martha Pascoe should be bartered for with barrels of fish , but most saw the whole affair as a great joke , because when all was said and done , the lass was unlikely to marry Sam or Harry or anyone else against her will , and if she could use their ardour to win a few more stone of pilchards and thereby swell the village purse and give everyone a bit of harmless fun , then more power to her elbow .
5 And if she could tell you her mind privately some while ago , do you suppose she can not make it very plain to us in public today ?
6 So far not a word had been spoken and if she could manage it the girl would not even know tomorrow .
7 If she could then convince Rainald that it might be a few days before she was granted another opportunity to meet him , and if she could discover how many spies the Empress had in Winchester , the precious time gained might be used to save Edmund .
8 And if she could find herself being attracted to another man so soon … even so slightly attracted …
9 After all , he was only one of the Company and if she could go out and eat with Ingrid or Rudi , why not with Gesner ?
10 But if she could elude constable , guards and attendants one way , she supposed she could likewise elude them the other .
11 On page 13 MARY BAILEY already has the cichlids — but if she could just get hold of a six foot tank …
12 Not easily — shapes were misty and distorted , blotted out completely when the fire flared ; but if she could see out , presumably the Women could see in .
13 But if she could n't have another baby the newsagent on the corner wanted someone in the mornings .
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