Example sentences of "it do [not/n't] [vb infin] to matter " in BNC.

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1 It did not seem to matter at the time .
2 Lesley-Jane was still low-key , but it did not seem to matter .
3 It did not seem to matter that she had borne him a son .
4 It was rather a small one and it did n't appear to matter at the time . ’
5 It did n't see to matter that the match was still in progress and was to end up even when Tom Watson , Mark McCumber , Lanny Wadkins and Curtis Strange beat Sam Torrance , Gordon Brand Jnr , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam .
6 Clarissa said it did n't seem to matter , because here he was , free again , and did n't he feel ashamed of getting tiddly at lunchtime ?
7 ‘ I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’
8 On rare occasions Peg Wooldridge came with the laundry as late as Wednesday , and now that Mrs Deacon was no longer there it did n't seem to matter .
9 It did n't seem to matter .
10 It did n't seem to matter , though .
11 What was going to become of my life I did n't know ; but lying there that day by the sea it did n't seem to matter much .
12 Just at present it did n't seem to matter if Camille missed a day of school .
13 Normally , she 'd have made a fuss about those things , but today it did n't seem to matter somehow .
14 Perhaps it seems politic to you to end our affair now that you realise you 're suspected — found out — whereas it did n't seem to matter while the evidence of your passion in bed could lull me into accepting that there was no one else .
15 ‘ But as it was only Rupert Stonebird it did n't seem to matter . ’
16 ‘ Scottish , ’ he corrected automatically , and wondered why English accents made him feel inferior , though it did n't seem to matter so much over here , there were fewer of them .
17 This thought reminded her that he had n't volunteered his own name , but somehow it did n't seem to matter .
18 She did n't know the steps , but it did n't seem to matter .
19 Many times , in the middle of the night when she could not sleep , she was faced with the slightly guilty realization that she was behaving rather badly , but in the daytime it did n't seem to matter .
20 It did n't seem to matter that much , because Rose knew exactly what was expected of her and quickly undid the remaining buttons of her blouse , revealing ample breasts well worthy of her name .
21 It does not appear to matter whether the learners are particularly interested in this input , or what they actually do with it , or whether they are actively engaged in achieving purposeful outcomes .
22 For present purposes it does not appear to matter ; the word ‘ appropriate ’ does not on either interpretation acquire the meaning contended for by the Crown .
23 They turn out a little patchy , but it does not seem to matter to the fish .
24 This is as expected , but it does not seem to matter , as Dr W. R. Allen of the ARC Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry at Cambridge has shown .
25 It does not seem to matter if these are mixed together in the one preparation whereas in classical homoeopathy it is held that remedies should not be mixed .
26 It does not seem to matter . ’
27 Somehow it does not seem to matter in the fast-moving , no-going-back whirl of a film that the hero is a complete fool .
28 It does not seem to matter very much which way we look at it .
29 It does not seem to matter to her what will happen on the other side of the road .
30 ‘ Somehow when the plumbing bursts , it does n't seem to matter as much any more .
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