She smiled as if she had been asked to inspect diamond jewelry with the aim of purchasing it.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

Then she got an idea. If she could create a hair product that worked for her, she could start her own business.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Sylvie felt as if she were a part of the gray shadows and the silver leaves that moved in the evening breeze.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

In the nineteen seventies, a supervisor asked her if she would like to do clinical research about pain.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

Your friend "has her heart in the right place" if she says she is sorry, and shows great concern for how you feel.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

She would say this if she believed someone had done something mean, dishonest or just stupid.

VOA: special.2011.04.24

The people seem so empty of joy that when she touched their cold fingers it is as if she were shaking hands with a storm.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

The king promised his little daughter anything she wanted if she would just get well.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Missus Obama joked that if she had known, she would have picked a higher number.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

She told the officials that they could decide after that if she had been successful.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

The gray-haired woman paused and opened her lips as if she would speak.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

She knows if she is caught, she too will die in the games.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

He wanted to see if she could do it in under eighty days.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

A man asked her if she knew the song "Mack the Knife."

VOA: special.2010.07.04