Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] if it do " in BNC.

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1 Playing the Tory game does not work in securing power , and would n't do us any good in the long term even if it did .
2 No-one wants to have a glare lamp in their face at closing time nor to have a doorman shouting ‘ Drink up ’ in the middle of an act even if it did get a laugh .
3 If you are involved in a nanny share , depending on the financial arrangements , l it may be viewed as a business even if it does not feel like one !
4 I thought of all the extra equipment his money would buy for Masquerade , and that 's how I tried to justify my acceptance of the senator 's proposal , but in reality it was because Crowninshield had invited me to play Galahad and I never could resist the lure of the dragon 's breath even if it did mean charging into idiocy like a fool .
5 ‘ Your wife 's father , ’ said Thorfinn , ‘ always had a high opinion of your good sense even if it did n't save him , in the end , from the rest of your family .
6 But it remains in the BBC 's history even if it does not remain in the history of the Labour Party .
7 Paragraph ( a ) is by way of restatement of the common law ; paragraph ( b ) extends it so as to make the disposition conversion even if it does not confer a good title on the disponee .
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