Example sentences of "if she [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 2 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 3 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 4 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 5 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 6 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 7 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 8 | Was that how she would have felt if she 'd been in her position ? |
| 9 | She felt as if she had been through a millrace , buffeted and whirled , but the one clear thought that ran through the inner tumult was the finally accepted fact that , with all her heart , she had wanted to say yes to Luke . |
| 10 | She stayed in Danzig five or six weeks , to her daughter-in-law 's horror and embarrassment , since she had her cryings and roarings ‘ as well as if she had been at home ’ . |
| 11 | If she had been at court the young dandies would have written odes and sonnets to her eyebrows , her finger nails and her sweet rose mouth . |
| 12 | It was as if she had been beyond the sky . |
| 13 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 14 | As she moved , her body ached as if she had been in a fight . |
| 15 | But Lamprey had been as courteous as if she had been in her father 's drawing-room . |
| 16 | None of this mess was of her making , yet she was just as much a prisoner as if she had been in gaol like Clive . |
| 17 | If she had been in a similar position she would also have called on the nearest colleague . |
| 18 | If she 's been under stress . |
| 19 | Did , do you know , do you know if she 's been with someone ? |
| 20 | She has to ask if she 's been to ? |