Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [be] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret had not been through anything like the rebellion her sister had known , but they both shared a great sense of elation . |
| 2 | Justicz commented on Oxford 's ‘ very nice ’ rhythm and felt the Dark Blues had been able to capitalise whenever Cambridge had not been at their best . |
| 3 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 4 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 5 | Even if Plácido Domingo had not moved Juan Pons , playing the mean and moody Sheriff of Puccini 's La Fanciulla del West , to barely-suppressed tears in the famous Act 3 aria , ‘ Ch'ella mi creda ’ — if , in other words , Domingo had not been at his committed best , which is quite something — the Scala audience would no doubt have roared its approval all the same . |
| 6 | Downing Street sought to explain the decision by saying that it had not been on his diary anyway . |
| 7 | If he had not been with them , he would have gone through that town quite safely . |
| 8 | He had not been with them since before the war and , as the youngest son , he saw his older brother and sisters passing away from him : Ada had died in 1943 , and now Henry was seriously ill with leukaemia . |
| 9 | If Tim had not been with them Rain would have questioned Cobalt about that . |
| 10 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 11 | Nor would she have been , if it had not been for him . |
| 12 | ‘ I would never have been a dancer or believed I could do anything if it had not been for him , ’ said Crawford . |
| 13 | If it had not been for him we would all be dead and there would n't be anybody telling this . |
| 14 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 15 | When Aunt Lilian wrote to tell him of my mother 's death — she said she had died from pneumonia — he sent a wreath of lilies and a letter , saying that if it had not been for her tuition , he would not be where he was now . |
| 16 | He took himself off , illogically cursing Emily Groundwater ; if it had not been for her he would have been in a warm bed , with Bible Willie breathing beside him . |
| 17 | It had not been for her . |
| 18 | If it had not been for my brother , the Odonata would have drowned , just as the turtle-shaped biped drowned . |
| 19 | If it had not been for his clothes and the rings on his fingers I would have scarcely recognised him . ’ |
| 20 | Sarah and Terry had no alternative but she and John could have had months of courtship before he went away if it had not been for his stubbornness . |
| 21 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 22 | He guided Alexandra out of the kitchen and along a passage so dark that if it had not been for his hand on her elbow , she would not have known where she was going . |
| 23 | Her sudden , almost overnight , success had not been without its problems however . |
| 24 | His own childhood , though markedly less strenuous , less arduous than Liz 's , had not been without its privations , its humiliations . |
| 25 | The big scoreboard behind the stands showed that the professional side of the tournament had not been without its drama . |
| 26 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 27 | He watched his aunt and Miss Williams wordlessly consult each other , but knew his aunt would do as she was told ; successful solicitor though she was , she was ten years younger than Miss Williams and , as she complained , totally intimidated by her as she had not been by anyone since her late headmistress . |
| 28 | The accountants ' error lay in receiving and acting upon a further claim which had not been in their terms of reference and had not been notified to the other party . |
| 29 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 30 | But we 've got a massive sackful of stuff and no one had left us a forwarding address and the landlady had n't been to us about any of them . |