Example sentences of "[vb past] not [be] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 2 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 4 | She had not been in that position . |
| 5 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 6 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 7 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 8 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 9 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 10 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 11 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 12 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |