Example sentences of "if [pron] have n't been for " in BNC.
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| 31 | After all , if it had n't been for Him , she would n't have a lovely daughter . |
| 32 | His heroics prompted disappointed Hammers striker Clive Allen to admit : ‘ If it had n't been for him , we would have won . ’ |
| 33 | If it had n't been for rock'n'roll , they 'd have dropped a bomb on someone else . |
| 34 | No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe . |
| 35 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 36 | If it had n't been for him I 'd not have reached the standards that I 've achieved , ’ said Zara . |
| 37 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 38 | Come to think of it , Columbia would n't have been around if it had n't been for the blues . |
| 39 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 40 | We must never forget , mind , either you or me , if it had n't been for Mrs Aggie and her yard , God knows where we would have been at this minute . |
| 41 | If it had n't been for the proximity of the tall dour houses and the unexpected kindness of a young girl , Craig would have been recaptured at once . |
| 42 | If it had n't been for her I would n't be here … |
| 43 | If it had n't been for you maybe I 'd be dead by now . ’ |
| 44 | If it had n't been for the help from her children she could n't have managed it . |
| 45 | This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster |
| 46 | I knew you 'd rather have been off on your own , if it had n't been for the children . |
| 47 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 48 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 49 | ‘ If it had n't been for Sleet , then what ? ’ |
| 50 | And to think , darling Lily , my darling sister , if it had n't been for you , I 'd as likely be selling herrings on Orchard Street … |
| 51 | 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 . ’ |
| 52 | If it had n't been for Müller . |
| 53 | If it had n't been for Müller 's exposure , he might have been amenable . |
| 54 | I had no intention just then of attempting such a thing , but as I lay awake that night I realised that if it had n't been for Lili I might have felt it necessary to attempt to describe to someone , anyone , what I knew of God and what he had asked of me . |
| 55 | ‘ Well , if it had n't been for me , you would n't have had it , because they asked me your character . |
| 56 | I am no molecular biologist , and would n't have dreamed of learning the techniques required to detect the immediate early genes , if it had n't been for the serendipitous arrival in the lab of a young molecular biologist from Moscow , Kostya Anokhin ( grandson of the psychologist and physiologist pupil of Pavlov , Peter Anokhin , whose ‘ functional systems theory ’ I referred to in passing in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 57 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 58 | If it had n't been for Josie , she would n't even have been aware of it . |
| 59 | If it had n't been for her , he would n't even be here . |
| 60 | If it had n't been for Jill Morrell and the people at WTN , London would have left him to rot . |