Example sentences of "[vb past] n't been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 2 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 7 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 8 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |