Example sentences of "had [adv] been [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 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 7 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 8 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 9 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 10 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 11 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 12 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 13 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 17 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 18 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 19 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 20 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 21 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 22 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 23 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |