Example sentences of "do n't mind " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am big for my age and I did n't mind if he thought I was a young man . |
| 2 | The sex had drifted away after a while , and Jay did n't mind ; not in that end-of-the-world Astrid way . |
| 3 | ‘ You said on the phone you did n't mind me being four foot eight . ’ |
| 4 | Even if I might have wandered away from Piccadilly , I could n't have gone far , and anyway I did n't mind walking . |
| 5 | One of the reasons they all became friends was that Wally 's mum and dad did n't mind that he bunked off school all the time . |
| 6 | Charlie was sensitive about having false teeth at thirty — why had n't all that wartime milk and orange juice set him up for life as it had his contemporaries ? — but he did n't mind Jack knowing . |
| 7 | He did n't mind what Jack knew about him , within reason , that is , although he had ceased to confide in him as absolutely as he had in the days when they passed through Kingsmarkham Primary School together . |
| 8 | I could n't really see what she was doing , but I did n't mind . |
| 9 | That was a nice picture — Marie liked it I think , cos she did n't mind me sticking it on the wall . |
| 10 | ‘ So you did n't mind me dancing with other people ? ’ |
| 11 | Betjeman appeared in a pair of eccentric bedroom slippers and said he hoped I did n't mind them as he had a blister . |
| 12 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 13 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 14 | He did n't mind . |
| 15 | But he did n't mind that . |
| 16 | He did n't mind . |
| 17 | Well , he did n't mind that except that it wasted time , time he could have used making his trap . |
| 18 | Philip did n't mind if he did . |
| 19 | Nigel did n't mind her joke about the spirits . |
| 20 | She did n't mind how long they had to stay . |
| 21 | Dot did n't mind about the toys and she knew she could n't ask for ginger pop because that cost money but she would have liked to have had her victory token back . |
| 22 | She did n't mind about that so long as she got a lovely little grave like Mrs Hollidaye 's baby daughter . |
| 23 | After a time I said , ‘ You do n't think that if he had an outside person looking after him , who he did n't mind telling him what to do because it was their job … ‘ |
| 24 | Sandy was very calm , quiet and did n't mind . |
| 25 | I did n't mind using the gears to achieve this , because clutch and gear change are as slick as a car 's — ladies take note . |
| 26 | We sat in the bar of a London theatre and I munched my way through an entire meal ( she said she did n't mind ! ) whilst Yasmin sipped juice , and talked . |
| 27 | Tremayne grunted and bore the document away , coming back presently to say I should stop working and go with him to Newbury races , if I did n't mind . |
| 28 | Anna did n't mind indulging him in his grief . |
| 29 | It 's three hours long , but I did n't mind that at all . |
| 30 | He did n't mind at first but when he kept bumping into sculptures of boats , animals or castles he became more and more frustrated . |