Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] n't [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |
| 2 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 3 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 4 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 5 | If I had n't been diagnosed quite early , I would n't be here . |
| 6 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 7 | If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall ’ . |
| 8 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 9 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 10 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 11 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |