Example sentences of "[verb] n't been for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 2 | If it had n't been for the help from her children she could n't have managed it . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 4 | It had been skinned , neatly eviscerated , and would have looked like any carcase in a butcher 's shop if it had n't been for the head . |
| 5 | Despite his personal trauma , his professionalism would never have been in question — if it had n't been for the drink and drugs . |
| 6 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , as I say , the worthy burghers of Oswaldston would not have asked me to spread the artistic products of my maturity before their admiring gaze if it had n't been for the Machin boom . |
| 8 | If it had n't been for the case , I think perhaps … ’ |
| 9 | Come to think of it , Columbia would n't have been around if it had n't been for the blues . |
| 10 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 11 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 12 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 13 | None of it would have happened if it had n't been for the dog . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I knew you 'd rather have been off on your own , if it had n't been for the children . |
| 16 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |
| 17 | If it had n't been for the war , they 'd have retired him , but it was like everything else these days , all hands to the pumps . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'd never have known , if it had n't been for the tissue-typing , ’ Celia pointed out . |
| 19 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If it had n't been for the colonel letting me have this cottage for a peppercorn rent , God knows where I 'd be . ’ |
| 22 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 23 | I do n't think I would have made quite so much impact , however , if it had n't been for the fact that , while they were carrying me round the church yelling , ‘ Aliens ! ’ 'Jesus Christ ! ’ and ‘ The snake cometh ! ’ the roof fell in . |
| 24 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 25 | If it had n't been for the fact that her stomach chose that precise moment to rumble loudly she might still have argued . |
| 26 | 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 . |