Example sentences of "had [adv] be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 2 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 3 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 4 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 5 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |