Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] not [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 2 | He moved forward importantly , pushing past Bernice and Cheryl as if they did not exist . |
| 3 | Gordon Orchard , a 61-year-old former Coldstream guardsman , who admitted abducting the child last summer , had 50 previous convictions , including indecent assault and attempted rape , but was sentenced as if they did not exist . |
| 4 | They all wait for him to go on , while appearing as if they do not care whether he goes on or not . |
| 5 | She touched on the word with delicacy , as if she dared not think of it . |
| 6 | It was as if she did not want him there . |
| 7 | It seemed to Charlotte as if she did not sleep at all that night , though her subsequent recollections of dreaming about telephones and disembodied voices suggested otherwise . |
| 8 | as if she did not know . |
| 9 | Rose said it as if she did not realize what a strange but interesting thing she had said . |
| 10 | Everyone came to her for advice , as if she did not have enough of her own problems to solve . |
| 11 | His face was cold , that same unsmiling face , pinched and thin , his dark eyes cruel , as if he dared not let them be anything else . |
| 12 | He was sitting on the ground near his packages over which he kept a protective , hostile arm , as if he did not want anything of his touched . |
| 13 | This machine should have run out of petrol many hours ago , ’ said the Doctor , sounding as if he did not want to be interrupted . |
| 14 | And this could never be real , this never could be happening to her , walking on the white squares behind Finn , who moved as if he did not set his feet to the ground , so gracefully , so uncannily . |
| 15 | He thought of the cabin up the creek to which his sister had withdrawn at his urging , and he turned to find the track , willing himself to control his horror , to keep moving nimbly and stealthily as if he did not feel unstrung . |
| 16 | In the lift at work doctors look right through Babur as if he did not exist . |
| 17 | ’ But the slit-eyes looked through him as if he did not exist . |
| 18 | Silence hung on the air , and when he turned back he saw that Suragai was still watching as if he did not understand what had occurred . |
| 19 | Parin stirred as if he did not understand the request . |
| 20 | He shook his head doubtfully as if he did not believe me but did n't want to be harsh about saying so . |
| 21 | as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty ! |
| 22 | Nothing could have been more controlled or correct , as if he did not know that his father had been driven out of the principality like a half-drowned rat , or a hound caught in a thunderstorm , and running for shelter with its tail between its legs . |
| 23 | Where the statute looks as if it does not cover certain forms of conduct the courts have sometimes read the statute widely to convict the " manifestly guilty " . |
| 24 | And so far , with our results , it looks as if it does not seem to have a major impact on our patients , so we may be doing something that does n't er particularly help the patients , and this is very important since we spend a lot of time doing these sorts of er procedures in our patients . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking . |
| 27 | It is , however , almost as if it did not have one . |
| 28 | I just stared back at him as if I did not recognize him , then moved away out of sight behind another screen . |
| 29 | ‘ She said she did not really want to go back to university and my husband told her she did not have to if she did not want to . |
| 30 | Judging their welfare now becomes in many ways a much easier matter since we do not have the intervention of mysterious interests which , on Regan 's model , they must be supposed to have yet will be unable to give voice to since they do not speak . |