Example sentences of "do [adv] matter [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 2 | It did not matter whether they had been far-sighted landowners , former artisans or merchants in feudal society ; what is crucial for Marxists is the belief that their ownership of the new and increasingly predominant mode of production led them to have common interests and goals . |
| 3 | Half of staff questioned believed it did not matter whether they lead by example . |
| 4 | It did n't matter whether she believed him or not . |
| 5 | By that time she 'd absorbed all her allowances , therefore it did n't matter whether she 'd |
| 6 | It did n't matter that it had taken such a long time . |
| 7 | It could n't be simply The History of Wimbledon ( there was a book with that title — it did n't matter that it had been published nearly two hundred years ago ) . |
| 8 | Because I do n't care for material things to the degree you do , you chose to believe it did n't matter that you grew rich on my name . ’ |
| 9 | Finally he remembered that he was alone in the house , and therefore it did n't matter if he had . |
| 10 | Jonas called it the family-room , where there were plenty of comfortable chairs and couches and it did n't matter if you put your feet up . |
| 11 | It did n't matter if you saw God , quit your job , and took the journey to India . |
| 12 | It did n't matter if you made a fool of yourself in front of strangers — he saw that now . |
| 13 | For a long while I thought it did n't matter if I lived or died , but you 've changed all that . |
| 14 | But their staring did n't matter because he did n't notice it . |
| 15 | It did n't matter , the other half did n't matter because it did n't come into contact really with the with the shaft . |
| 16 | It do n't matter whether you say I wo n't say anything cos it always comes back . |
| 17 | But it do n't matter if you offend him does it ? |
| 18 | Do n't matter if it 's got fruit on it does it ? |
| 19 | But , I thought it do n't matter where you stay somebody 's gon na say oh God , I would n't go there |
| 20 | do n't matter where you sit |
| 21 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
| 22 | With direction targets it does not matter since we do not expect to get there . |
| 23 | It does not matter whether I claim that God has granted me special revelation , a unique experience , or an unshakeable conviction which I choose to call ‘ faith ’ . |
| 24 | If a third person steps in and gives a consideration for the discharge of the debtor , it does not matter whether he does it in meal or in malt , or what proportion the amount given bears to the amount of the debt . |
| 25 | It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people . |
| 26 | Bitterly she thought , it is all spoiled , spoiled by consent , spoiled by refusal , it does not matter if I go or stay . |
| 27 | It really does not matter if you do not lose weight every week . |
| 28 | ‘ Rules are there to be obeyed , and it does not matter if you do n't happen to like them . |
| 29 | It does not matter if you do not have exactly the same things as are shown in the drawing ; alter the design to suit what you have . |
| 30 | Any inbuilt coding — in the form of genes — that could affect us after our child-bearing period is irrelevant to the survival of the species : the genes involved might code us for death but , in terms of the species , this does not matter because we have already served our purpose by reproducing . |