Example sentences of "[verb] not been [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
| 2 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 3 | The humiliation was worse because it was so public , and it was a good thing that Annabel had not been in New York when the news broke , when gloating gossip writers had jammed Scott and Annabel 's home phones with their venomous questions . |
| 4 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 5 | Before the 1991 visit she had not been in Northern Ireland since she spent two days in the province in August 1977 during her national jubilee tour . |
| 6 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 7 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for Jill Morrell and the people at WTN , London would have left him to rot . |
| 9 | No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe . |
| 10 | ‘ This morning you discovered they had n't been with Peter Leary as they 'd told us . |
| 11 | I have n't been to Hong Kong to see Ben |