Example sentences of "had n't be [prep] [det] [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 | 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 . |
5 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
6 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
7 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |