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 .
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