Example sentences of "[subord] if [pron] have never " in BNC.
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1 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
2 | They have been fed non-sexist , multi-cultural books and toys along with their strained apricots ; they have been treated by female GPs , they have sat and watched Kaffe Fassett knitting and sewing on TV , but their ideas of male and female roles are as sexist as if we had never made the effort . |
3 | His expression remained as unchanged as if she 'd never spoken , and she was gripped all over again by a longing to shatter that icy exterior . |
4 | Pascal warned that ‘ hearsay is so far from being a criterion of belief that you should not believe anything until you have put yourself into the same state as if you had never heard it . ’ |
5 | And yet the same claim , when promulgated by Robert Graves , then by Dr Schonfield in The Passover Plot , attracted as much scandal and incredulity as if it had never been broached before . |
6 | She saw it all in terms of Edmund 's settlement : a brief holiday on the Riviera , and such a sum could vanish as if it had never been . |