Example sentences of "not [vb infin] [verb] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to adapt itself to her and , in any case , she would not have noticed if it had been a giraffe . |
| 2 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 3 | It allows me to savour the end of the conflict , to enjoy it in a way I could not have done if it had really happened , that is if a few words had been exchanged , spoken with difficulty through the barbed-wire taboos that separate people in so-called intimate relationships . |
| 4 | Before that she could not bear to leave because it meant leaving Brian behind . |
| 5 | The layer containing the fingers does not continue to thicken until it fills the fluid region . |
| 6 | But he did n't want to go if it meant leaving Kate behind . |
| 7 | I do n't like to read because it takes my mind off myself . |
| 8 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 9 | ‘ I know it was a shock for the club but I would n't have gone if it meant leaving them in the lurch . |
| 10 | Ronni would n't have minded if it had been a less gracious compliment . |
| 11 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We probably would n't have signed if it had been just SGI , ’ Ousley says . |
| 13 | I ca n't go running cos it hurts too much . |
| 14 | So , you finish the conversation , and you just flick the handset , you flick the black button in other words , you do n't fully put the handset down , so you flick the black button and you make another call and the camp on does n't mature , it does n't seem to mature because it does n't seem to be long enough for the computer to recognise that the conversation has ended . |
| 15 | Lady Grubb picked up her plate of junket and went to eat it in the drawing-room , shaking with a passion she did n't care to scrutinize because it contained not only fury but also amazement and fear . |