Example sentences of "if [pron] [verb] n't been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had n't been a fool I would have been the dead girl in the road . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 3 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 4 | If I had n't been so snowed under I 'd have phoned myself , and you could have reminded me . |
| 5 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 6 | If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her . |
| 7 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Bogie would n't have married me if I had n't been prepared to agree not to follow my career . |
| 11 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 12 | If I had n't been too dumb I could have come to Mars-U as well , then I would n't have been alone . |
| 13 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |
| 14 | If I had n't been weak and without hope I should have quarrelled with almost everything Syl said . |
| 15 | If I had n't been ‘ discovered ’ , as I suppose I must describe it , then I would have been on the same old path , up at Low Birk Hatt and miserable . |
| 16 | What would you be doing at this moment , if I had n't been there ’ |
| 17 | If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Okay , I , I , I 'm glad , I , I 'm glad I was confused on that point , because if I had n't been , I might not have have er |
| 20 | I think , if I had n't been there , she 'd have gone to sleep right away . |
| 21 | as if I had n't been through enough today , I 've just been dubbed your plaything of the week — ’ |
| 22 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Jewish family got back their papers and told me afterwards that if I had n't been there to see it , God knows what might have happened to them . |
| 25 | If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’ |
| 26 | You 'd have had to work a lot harder if I had n't been around to help with those locks and cook your food , brew endless cups of coffee . |
| 27 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I had the feeling that if I had n't been present he might have risked uttering a few words to Millie . |