Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be [not/n't] for you " in BNC.
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| 1 | " If it was n't for you two , " my mother told us , " I could be off somewhere else . " |
| 2 | I might have stopped it already if it was n't for you . |
| 3 | ‘ You know , Athelstan , if it was n't for you and your bloody logic , I 'd put the entire mystery down to witchcraft . |
| 4 | Externalisation or blaming — accepting that there are significant problems but blaming anything other than alcohol or drug use for their cause : " If it were n't for you I 'd be okay " . |
| 5 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |