Example sentences of "it had n't been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such .
2 It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place .
3 I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’
4 And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’
5 ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’
6 If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’
7 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 .
8 It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all .
9 But it had n't been like that .
10 It had n't been like that , she wanted to howl .
11 It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen …
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