Example sentences of "if she [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know if she 'll ever get out . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll be able to talk to her sooner or later , and it sounds as if she might actually be useful . |
| 3 | I wondered if she might ever get frostbite ; I was sure I could see little crystals of ice glinting on her faint moustache . |
| 4 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 5 | Far from being wrapped up in the Tour and excited by it , she looked all the time as if she would sooner be anywhere else . |
| 6 | In the farthest corner , looking as if she would rather be anywhere else in the world at that moment , sat Dora . |
| 7 | Gennaro asked Elisa if she would please just wait a little longer . |
| 8 | It dawned on Nutty , reading the programme ( ‘ Start 9 am prompt ’ ) that they had none of them attempted to do the four parts of the competition all on the same day , and she wondered bitterly if she would still be conscious when the results were announced . |
| 9 | He wondered if she would indeed try to seduce him . |
| 10 | He thought for a moment that if she would only accept his feelings for Carrie he would go to her this minute and put his arms about her and comfort her , but he knew she would never accept Carrie . |
| 11 | And if she would only let me have Annie round ’ — his thumb was wagging again — ‘ the place would be spotless . ’ |
| 12 | If she would only realise that she would have confided in me now . ’ |
| 13 | Ruth stretched out her hands to the red glow , wondering if she would ever again be warm all through her . |
| 14 | She gave her letter to the postman with a heavy heart , wondering if she would ever see her sister again . |
| 15 | Now those roses reminded her of Gerry , who had pasted them there , and she wondered if she would ever find the courage to scrape them off . |
| 16 | But she did not know if she would ever want to make love to Tom . |
| 17 | As the insects met a sticky death on her windscreen and brambles and gorse bushes clawed at the bright sides of her hired Fiat , she wondered if she should have stayed at home and if she would ever , in fact , see ‘ La Felicità ’ . |
| 18 | He wondered if she would ever regret it , and thought not . |
| 19 | She wondered if she would ever free herself from the memory . |
| 20 | He threw her hand contemptuously from him and she rubbed it , wondering if she would ever get rid of the impression of his fingers . |
| 21 | The main part of the school was considerably more attractive , being a red-brick residence , rambling but characterful , built for the vendor of wine and spirits in the last years of the Old Queen , when people were beginning to wonder if she would ever go . |
| 22 | She took up a late cancellation for a holiday and photographed the leaning tower of Pisa ; in Florence sat drinking a cappuccino near the Piazza San Felice , thinking of those two English lovers , the Browning poets , who had lived there ; threw a coin in the Trevi Fountain in Rome , wondering if she would ever come back . |
| 23 | Emmie shivered as if she would never stop . |
| 24 | She felt as if she would never need sleep again . |
| 25 | But at least he is here , she thought , and wondered if she would really have tried to get into the Workshops by herself if she had had to . |
| 26 | His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit , and she began panting as if she 'd just run the four-minute mile . |
| 27 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
| 28 | I mean , why did n't she tell me the truth , I can understand you know , I could , you know , I could perha if she 'd just tell me the truth you know tell me why she 's u , what she 's up to and that . |
| 29 | If she 'd rather I did n't see him , I would n't . |
| 30 | For a moment I wondered if she 'd fully come round from the carbon monoxide . |