Example sentences of "[verb] not been for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
2 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
3 | If it had not been for Adam 's quick eyes we might never have seen anything amiss . |
4 | If it had not been for Elizabeth taking her in off the streets and giving her a home , then Tilly 's own life would have been empty . |
5 | If it had not been for Agnes 's willingness to help , poor Miss Watson would have been unaided in her weakness . |
6 | ‘ If it had not been for Tracy , I would not be a professional footballer any more . |
7 | Perhaps I might have recognized my own hypocrisy , if it had not been for Richard 's behaviour in the next months . |
8 | He was , by one account , " shattered by grief and almost despair " after Vivien 's death and , if it had not been for John Hayward 's help and encouragement , would have retired into complete seclusion . |
9 | But if it had not been for Hillary Clinton 's TV performance and George Bush 's Japanese collapse , neither of them might now be ordering the removal vans . |
10 | If it had not been for Jeremy 's displays of speed , power and massive wheelies , backed up by a courageous Robert Holden , these races would have been pretty flat beer . |