Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [not/n't] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 32 | Probably they had n't been on stage more than half a dozen times before they were put under this microscope . |
| 33 | Yeah , they had n't been in hospital for a few years , they have n't , I 've never known to go in . |
| 34 | Fitzormonde and Mowbray had always been soft , they could whine and moan that they had not been to blame , but Horne had agreed to Whitton 's plan and built a thriving business on the proceeds . |
| 35 | It must have been clear to the Prussian government that if it had not been for government subsidy the Junker estates would have collapsed under their own weight long ago , but they were nevertheless incapable of striking at what they saw to be the basis and guarantor of their state and society . |
| 36 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 37 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 38 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
| 39 | ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more . |
| 40 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
| 41 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
| 42 | Even his magnum opus , Perestroika , written in the summer of 1987 , contained the amazing notion in its first edition that ‘ if it had not been for collectivisation , we could have died from hunger in the war ’ . |
| 43 | The whole room , scented with the Christmas goose , seemed to glimmer with warmth and merriment and if it had not been for fear of distressing the children , Alexandra would have been happy to burst into tears . |
| 44 | Jack always saw Piggy as a burden and if it had not been for Piggy 's spectacles Piggy would have been even more hated by Jack . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | But everything else had been alive and splendid in a way it had not been for years . |
| 47 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
| 50 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 51 | He went on , ‘ If it had n't been for Bertha sticking to her guns over the question of the house , I 'd have been married to Doreen by now — and that would have been a disaster . ’ |
| 52 | If it had n't been for Müller . |
| 53 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
| 54 | In fact , if it had n't been for Granpa I would n't even have been made to attend the local elementary school in Jubilee Street , and ‘ attend ’ was the right word , because I did n't do a lot once I 'd got there , other than bang the lid of my little desk and occasionally pull the pigtails of ‘ Posh Porky ’ , the girl who sat in front of me . |
| 55 | ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’ |
| 56 | If it had n't been for Willie 's attentive expression he would have stopped . |
| 57 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 58 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 59 | If it had n't been for Anna , she 'd have been gone at sunrise . |
| 60 | ‘ If it had n't been for Home Rule in the South , would Ulster have been ruled by Presbyterians in Belfast ? ’ |