Example sentences of "do [not/n't] matter " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fisher replied that it did not matter much . |
| 2 | She knew the doctor thought she was a lunatic , but as she would never see her again , it did not matter now as much as the truth . |
| 3 | It did not matter to her anyway . |
| 4 | It did not matter that it was the Rose they had grown to like . |
| 5 | The DSS argued that intention did not matter and under legal aid regulations they were entitled to treat Mr Saunders as having a notional £407,000 . |
| 6 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
| 7 | That did not matter much when rich foreigners used Switzerland simply as a safe home for their money . |
| 8 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 9 | Van Doren 's excuse to the investigating congressional committee was the most interesting part of the unedifying episode : ‘ I was almost able to convince myself that it did not matter what I was doing because it was having such a good effect on the national attitude to teachers , education and the intellectual life . ’ |
| 10 | The man he described as ‘ the top Russian espionage agent in the United States — Alger Hiss 's boss ’ turned out to be a blameless university professor and China expert , Owen Lattimore , but it did not matter . |
| 11 | Today it did not matter so much that he was different . |
| 12 | It did not matter now that he was stiff , itching , cold , and dry-mouthed with hunger . |
| 13 | It really did not matter to her whether she had treatment or not . |
| 14 | Indeed , the casual indifference of this earlier document makes it quite clear what the English were after ; France , as the later memorandum said , must not make Scotland a ‘ footstool ’ to look over England , and whether that be resolved , as the memorial of the 8th put it , by Mary 's heir Châtelherault or by her bastard half-brother lord James , should he have designs on the crown , really did not matter . |
| 15 | He was not rewarded with the birdie four he deserved but it did not matter . |
| 16 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 17 | The overhead lights started going out , but that did not matter to him . |
| 18 | The German Social Democratic leaders , Wilhelm Liebknecht and August Bebel , were also in the first instance critical , since the Polish argument seemed to imply that the territorial expansionism of imperialism in general , and Prussia in particular , did not matter any longer beside the development of supranational class unity . |
| 19 | That was the first weakness , the first failure , which had led on , so inevitably , through the series of , not after all so many , girls who did not matter , to the girl who mattered ; and to the point where Franca 's complaisant kindness must come to an abrupt end . |
| 20 | The situation was so dreadful , so nightmarish , their details did not matter , they just confronted her as an abomination which was capable of driving her mad . |
| 21 | That did not matter for soon burning aircraft lit the scene as though it were daylight . |
| 22 | They might still , for their own sakes , be taught in groups segregated according to ability , and that did not matter . |
| 23 | He explained his predicament to the librarian but was told that the book was due to be pulped and it did not matter that he was the author . |
| 24 | The Divisional Court said that this did not matter and was not caught by section 78 , which the judges stressed was concerned with no more than the narrow question of the effect of the police practice on the fairness of the proceedings in court . |
| 25 | For a moment he felt that it did not matter what he had promised Maidstone . |
| 26 | At the time it did not matter to us because I did n't want to go out with David . |
| 27 | Whether it was talking to travellers or just listening to the lads , whether I felt warmth or animosity did not matter . |
| 28 | It did not matter to them if Luke 's betrayal of his friends was the culmination of a long-standing feud between himself and Gallagher concerning land . |
| 29 | Within an hour he would be prostrate with an attack of the headache which had plagued him since youth , but it did not matter . |
| 30 | This did not matter , since it was the topics that counted , not the order of them or the way they were introduced . |