Example sentences of "had not been [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was because the Americans had not been at the Moscow Olympics that he was n't sure of himself ; yet he had beaten them later . |
| 2 | Perhaps if it had not been for the Shakoor Rana affair the TCCB might have handled this quietly and sensibly by issuing a non-committal statement and letting the fuss die down . |
| 3 | He also contradicted Mrs Mandela 's alibi by saying she had not been in the Orange Free State on the day Stompie and three other youths were assaulted at her Soweto house . |
| 4 | He had n't been to the Martins ' for lunch since Antoinette died . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 7 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 8 | Not even being allowed to come and see you — if it had n't been for the Suvarovs I think I 'd have gone mad . ’ |
| 9 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |