Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] it did [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you ca n't wipe out the past as if it did n't exist , Ruth thought . |
| 2 | Your treating the question as if it did n't exist is no help to you , no one ever got away by playing the ostrich . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But it only looked as if it did n't go in , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 4 | And you come dancing up in your stinking rags as if it did n't matter ! |
| 5 | The flesh of his hands appeared loose , as if it did n't fit his bones . |
| 6 | But nicely , as if it did n't matter . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , really ? ’ she uttered smugly as if it did n't matter at all . |
| 8 | He told me this gaily , as if it did not much matter whether I believed it or no . |
| 9 | It is , however , almost as if it did not have one . |
| 10 | My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking . |
| 11 | A lackadaisical boy with spots admitted him , and asked what he wanted , as if it did not greatly matter . |
| 12 | The House of Lords held that when determining the nature of the source of the income arising to the trust one looked through the trust treating the trust for all practical purposes as if it did not exist . |
| 13 | What would love be for if it did n't solve everything ? |
| 14 | admitting things like losing fifty billion quid on fluttering on foreign exchanges er Mr did or flittering away the north sea oil revenue in tax cuts for higher earners rather than er keeping that er once in a life time er bonus that this country had for the north sea oil and also you could mention the increased pension for but it did n't match billions that have been wasted on defence expenditure especially defence expenditure and especially the trident programme . |
| 15 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |
| 16 | Publicly , Israeli officials criticized the resolution , but privately many declared it to be " tolerable " in that it did not recommend any concrete UN steps against Israel . |
| 17 | She wanted to be happy with him and for everything to be as it had been before but it did n't seem possible . |
| 18 | I did think I might read them some day , when I could bear to and it did n't feel quite so much like prying . ’ |