Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] been for [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
| 2 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
| 3 | There would n't have been an Opera House at all if it had n't been for Joseph F Warden , the actor manager who settled in Belfast in 1864 with his actress wife Jenny Bellair . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If it had n't been for Arthur Billstock , I would probably have taken the same road as Mark . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for Jill Morrell and the people at WTN , London would have left him to rot . |
| 7 | No-one would have ever known about my moment of unfaithfulness if it had n't been for Mr Peter Lowe . |