Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] not [be] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | Had it not been for Unish and Belig and a few others , we would be there still . |
| 3 | Had it not been for anti-depressant drugs and psychitaric help , he says he could easily have taken his own life . |
| 4 | But the project could have been lost to overseas had it not been for grant aid from the Welsh Office . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He would have lived a long and full life had it not been for Flodden . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |