Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] not be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Had I not been with Matt and Tony I would n't have considered setting foot inside the level .
2 Just outside Abermule Station on the 26th January 1921 , this train met another head-on , resulting in the deaths of fourteen passengers including Lord Herbert Vane Tempest and Capt. Harold Owen , both directors of the Cambrian Railway and in whose company Haydn Jones should have been in the tea car that morning , had he not been in bed with a chill !
3 Had it not been for Goleniewski 's information , which the court could not be told about , Blake would never have been caught and because Goleniewski could not have given evidence without Blake 's confession he could not have been brought to trial .
4 Had it not been for Helmut 's wealth and his travels , we should not have had anything like the variety of food Mme Guérigny put on her table .
5 Had it not been for Unish and Belig and a few others , we would be there still .
6 Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life .
7 Roosevelt might nevertheless have got his way in 1943 , had it not been for developments inside France .
8 But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office .
9 ‘ So , all in all , last year , I was quite ready to liquidate some of my American assets , and I would have done so , had it not been for Edouard . ’
10 It does not seem unreasonable to suggest that Graham Gooch would never have got any further than being Ted Dexter 's favourite wet fish had it not been for Fletcher 's overwhelming if understated influence .
11 Voeller might have scored in the 24th minute had it not been for Andy Goram 's fine save from a powerful 20-yard shot , but seven minutes later he set up Marseille 's opener .
12 Indeed , the Minister of the Legation , Captain ( later Sir ) Vyvyan Holt , was later to say that he would not have survived one of their many forced marches in intense cold had it not been for Blake 's courage and help .
13 After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’
14 Rentokil would not have won the coveted Business Enterprise Award as company of the year had it not been for individuals playing their part , as our Chief Executive Clive Thompson reiterated ‘ this award is for the Rentokil people and the contribution this Company has made to improving the environment ’ .
15 Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle .
16 Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow .
17 He would have lived a long and full life had it not been for Flodden . ’
18 I am aware that you are much more concerned in the matter , which I am going to lay before you , than your Mother , yet I should not have troubled you with it , except through her , had it not been of Importance not to lose time .
19 For example , he is showing the Metropolitan 's ‘ Venus and Adonis ’ , although he would also have borrowed the one recently auctioned at Christie 's and bought by the Getty Museum , had it not been in restoration .
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