Example sentences of "if [pers pn] did n't [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | It was as if I did n't even exist . ’ |
2 | if I did n't fucking pass . |
3 | I knew of the need for fibre , fresh fruits and vegetables — even if I did n't much like them — and I knew of the dangers of saturated fats and too much salt . |
4 | She refused to budge until she 'd got one or two matters in order , and , ignoring the fact that he looked ready to go and hunt up her bag himself if she did n't soon move herself , ‘ Is it all right for you to invite me to Mr and Mrs Hepwood 's home ? ’ she asked for starters , and braved his acid glance that said he 'd hardly be likely to issue an invitation if it was n't . |
5 | Oh , well , it would give her two bodyguards if she did n't ever let them out of her sight . |
6 | She could read them all , Oxo , Rinso , O-Cedar , and Aero , even if she did n't always understand what they meant . |
7 | By birth she was a lioness , born under the ruling sign of Leo and proud of it , even if she did n't really set much store by astrology . |
8 | ‘ Will your family still be here ? ’ asked Nina , glancing from Rachel to David and back to Rachel again , a slightly bemused look on her face as if she did n't really understand what was happening between them but wished she did . |
9 | He 's the chairman of TVL , if you did n't already know . ’ |
10 | If you did n't all want to go , you know you do n't have to go , but then I could just take maybe ten or fifteen of you , but how many will be interested in going to the one in the summer in this lovely out-door theatre ? |
11 | So if you did n't really want to embark on that treatment we again , use the waxing treatment as for the eyebrows , we use ca ho , hot wax on the area that you need , on the chin , on the upper lip . |
12 | More likely , once established as a member of the literati and the venerable ‘ June 20th Group ’ , she felt a need to stress her difference from them — as if we did n't already know . |
13 | The message of the Rio summit has been ( as if we did n't already know it ) that this is a small and fragile world and where conservation is concerned , everything is everybody 's business and that does n't just apply to the white rhino but to the artistic patrimony as well . |
14 | IF WE did n't already have a Vibes single of the week , this would be it . |
15 | as if they did n't even want anyone to know they 'd been inside . ’ |
16 | There were bed-baths and nurses — nurses who if they did n't yet seem to be bursting out of their brassieres , were certainly stretching their blouses to danger point . |
17 | Peter Rogers knew he had hit a gold mine , even if it did n't always seem to the performers that he was totally on their side . |
18 | How could he pursue her further if he did n't even know her name ? |
19 | She was more rueful than ever , so that Charles stopped dancing and if he did n't quite haul her off the dance floor , he was rather brusque . |
20 | He is ‘ a gentleman with a rather perplexed expression of face , and with very grey hair disordered on his head , as if he did n't quite see his way to putting anything straight ’ , but kind and honest . |
21 | She meant he might at least have promised to have a go at shaking the devils out , even if he did n't quite believe in them ; he might at least have tried . |
22 | Mr Hobbs said ‘ your husband ’ as if he did n't much like Richard , and for some reason this pleased me . |
23 | If he did n't constantly barge in on her thoughts and drive everything else out of her head , she would n't be having any of these problems . |
24 | But Ken had friends a-plenty , even if he did n't always recognize them as such . |
25 | ‘ But you were Mr Russell 's only child , my dear , and you must not doubt that he loved you , even if he did n't always make it perfectly apparent . ’ |
26 | Nobody could deny Mr Gummer this small triumph , but he might make more friends if he did n't always insist on making such a meal of it . |
27 | ( Once a 14-year-old son of a friend asked him if he did n't ever get nervous building lighthouses with the sea pounding ferociously on the rocks below him . |
28 | It was as if he did n't actually want to go near the scene of the crime and I could n't blame him . |