Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 3 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 4 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 7 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’ |
| 9 | If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 13 | It had n't been like that , she wanted to howl . |
| 14 | It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen … |
| 15 | It had always been like that . |
| 16 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 17 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 18 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |