Example sentences of "not [prep] if they " in BNC.
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| 1 | His puppies do the same thing — and it 's not as if they can copy him , because they never see him . |
| 2 | It was not as if they were going out alone on the High Veld . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not as if they 're poaching us or anything . |
| 4 | It 's not as if they say to their kids : ‘ try to the best of your ability . ’ |
| 5 | However , it 's not as if they 've erected a Chinese Wall . |
| 6 | Not as if they were in pain but very quietly and evenly , as if out of some dreadful and hopeless despair . |
| 7 | Chords based on whole-tones can occur in many other systems , even in diatonic harmony ( e.g. the ninth chord G , B , F , A ) , but of course they sound perfectly in place and not as if they have merely been temporarily extracted from the whole-tone system . |
| 8 | Not as if they were old friends , but as if there was no reason on earth why , given time , they could n't be . |
| 9 | It 's not as if they get much study done the last week or so anyway . ’ |
| 10 | ’ It 's not as if they would add up to a great sum . ’ |
| 11 | After all , hinges do n't last for ever and it 's not as if they were trying to cram a bulky parcel through a small space , just a slim package . |
| 12 | It 's not as if they 've done anything very unusual now , is it ? ’ |
| 13 | It 's not as if they were going to be chucked out . |
| 14 | It 's not as if they were a modern matched set that could be re-sold . ’ |
| 15 | I mean , I suppose what the others were doing was illegal , but it 's not as if they were forcing anyone to take the stuff . |
| 16 | it 's not as , it 's not as , it 's not as if they 're right in that corner as you come in from , from er Farnsfield , a a a as Mike said there 's a twenty foot fe hedge there , which is going to be kept . |
| 17 | ‘ I like to think passengers leave one of my classes feeling fit and ready for anything , not as if they 've personally helped dig the Channel tunnel ! |
| 18 | After all it 's not as if they ca n't score . |
| 19 | Scotland have had disruptions to their scrummaging routines this week though , as both McGeechan and Dixon reasoned , it is not as if they have had to fuse any newcomers to the pack , where Peter Wright 's sabbatical to loosehead worked well against the French . |
| 20 | And it 's not as if they made money every time they moved , 'cos they have n't , 'cos they lost money on that 'ouse , there . |
| 21 | it 's not as if they 're having nothing . |
| 22 | It 's not as if they could read the Radio Times and see |
| 23 | Table 22 of Appendix 1 shows that when people have recently bought a major item for cash rather than credit , half did so either because they never use credit or because they prefer not to if they can avoid it . |
| 24 | It was n't as if they were heading for the hills . |
| 25 | It is n't as if they fit , either . ’ |
| 26 | It was n't as if they did n't know they were taking a risk — during the fifties and sixties debates raged in the press about highrise housing , with its defenders calling opposition simply prejudice . |
| 27 | It was n't as if they were real money . |
| 28 | It was n't as if they had some sort of relationship ; he had taken her out only to help her with her search . |