Example sentences of "[subord] if she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because that 's the thing like , although if she did something a bit more traditional , it 'd probably please the likes of us but when you think , the kids that are doing it , if she says oh we 're doing something out of Starlight Express it 'll be aah ! |
| 2 | He moved lithely , carrying her with no more effort than if she 'd been a baby . |
| 3 | Much as she loved Nora , she was sufficiently realistic about her cousin to know that whatever was beginning to develop in her niece would be much more likely to come to something if Constance remained with her in Surrey than if she returned to the north . |
| 4 | The bees just crawled over her , paying no more heed to her than if she had been a treestump . |
| 5 | If she will be earning , that will eat into her profits , but she is likely to be more contented than if she had given up her job . |
| 6 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 7 | If , by mating with more than one male , the female could persuade the males to help rear the young , then she would ensure a better chance of survival for her offspring than if she had only one helper or none at all . |
| 8 | And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none . |
| 9 | And in the remaining 14 , levels were in all cases lower if the mother had seven years or more of schooling than if she had none , though the death rates were higher if the women had 1–3 or 4–6 years of formal education than if she had none . |
| 10 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 11 | It was worse , in fact , than if she had been obviously of a more humble station , for a gentlewoman in her circumstances was instantly under suspicion of a fall from respectability . |
| 12 | With Helen to assist her and Ian doing the farm work she was no worse off than if she had , as originally planned , set up in practice on her own . |
| 13 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 14 | She generally fills her supermarket trolley more fully when she shops just before a meal than if she shops shortly after one , when her hunger is fully satisfied . |
| 15 | On the other hand , infant mortality may in fact be higher in those countries when the mother has 1–3 or 4–6 years of schooling than if she has none . |
| 16 | He explained that in allowing herself to cry she was showing a normal reaction to her loss and that this would lead to earlier resolution of her feelings than if she bottled them up . |
| 17 | In 1989 , in a state with average AFDC payments , a single woman with two children who took a job at the minimum wage ( then $3.35 an hour ) would earn a paltry $33 more each month than if she did not work at all and stayed on welfare . |
| 18 | Cos if she does n't get in not leave the Hey ? |
| 19 | Cos if she does she 's a bit of a pervert . |
| 20 | Cos if she saw you with it on |
| 21 | cos you could , I mean if if she asked you about it , you know , you could just say well honestly I 'm quite , I did n't think you were the kind of person who 'd go for I know , I know that thing is I mean I can see , I can see that she 's going for him because |
| 22 | If you live round the corner from Mary Whitehouse could you pop in and tell her that her phone is off the hook she has n't replaced the receiver and she she 's quite an elderly lady and I would would be terribly upset if if she had n't got her phone back cos she might need it for emergencies or something like that and I am a caring concerned person so could you could you pop round the corner to Mary 's house and tell her that she has n't put her phone on the hook off the hook properly could you do that ? |
| 23 | He thinks she should go to Pakistan because if she does n't she 'll get her own way . |
| 24 | Because if she does n't , I do ; millions in this country do ; and members of her own party do : that urging from the Prime Minister wo n't resolve the dispute — arbitration will . ’ |
| 25 | I mean , Kylie Minogue in a wheelchair would not be Kylie Minogue , because if she went on ‘ Top of the Pops ’ it would be : ‘ Here 's tragic Kylie , here 's a scene from her hospital bed ’ , then she 'd sink into never-never land — bye-bye . |
| 26 | I am glad now she did lose her budgie — and find it — because if she had n't she would n't have seen my puppy trapped right down in the hollow tree . |
| 27 | Angela was glad she was a Brownie , because if she had n't been she would surely have broken down and sobbed at missing her great chance of winning the bicycle . |
| 28 | He always felt honoured to have been chosen , because if she had n't been comfortable with him she would have worked him out of the job long ago with little finesse . |
| 29 | Because if she had n't done it , if she was exactly as she appeared to be — warm , vibrant , witty , and sensual — he was going to have to marry her , and he knew it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm just thankful that the baby was asleep because if she had moved her face the knife would have cut her . ’ |