Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] it be n't " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't be at Arsenal if it was n't for him . |
| 2 | The other argument is , of course , would anyone ever have heard of David if it was n't for Tony ? |
| 3 | It came back , like a pain , temporarily dulled by drugs , in the terrible early hours in Emily 's bed where he lay , awake and fretful , scourged by his conscience or his sense of preservation , or whatever it was he had so recklessly ignored , tensed for another screaming fit and wondering how he would explain to Brenda that it was n't his fault . |
| 4 | Your father and I would still be in Akmeyon if it was n't for your zeide . |
| 5 | It is n't my amplifier , as I have tried this with an SG and it was n't effected . |
| 6 | It was in 1956 that Leigh-born Dorothy first joined the typing pool at the UKAEA and it was n't long before she was promoted as secretary to Jim Stewart , then Head of the Authority . |
| 7 | Where did he get the money to set himself up with a yacht in Burnham-on-bloody-Crouch if it was n't a pay-off from Maurice Abberley for services rendered ? ’ |
| 8 | More work was required on the Tri-Pacer in Singapore because it was n't producing power the way it should . |
| 9 | Mm , but Mike that it was n't new , how do you explain that Kirsty ? |
| 10 | She could lie there thinking about a most unpleasant nightmare , thanking God that it was n't true . |
| 11 | There was a ten-ton truck supposed to be waiting for us at Dili but it was n't there . |
| 12 | Although most of the Mondays managed to knuckle down to a daily routine , rather than the usual blurred , night-time slog , stories continued to filter back to Britain that it was n't all hunky-dory in paradise . |
| 13 | overpower , you know , creep up on you , I , I 'd , it 'd just get the better of me Eric that 's why I got really the other one you see and that , I , I have n't come to any harm not having it , and erm I 've just got to get rid of this because it 's , I 'd do a lot more Eric if it were n't for the television , I know I 'll miss it when I get rid of it you see , it has been described as a plug-in drug |
| 14 | Er , and I think that 's an interesting point that , where yo where , when you read the story and you think really what prevented them marrying happily then , was Bertha but it was n't it was their attitudes to each other . |
| 15 | MATTHEW Syed , the 22-year-old Oxford University student , won both his table tennis games for England against France at Brentwood but it was n't enough to prevent France from winning 3–2 . |
| 16 | They had actors ' temperaments , and they forgot London because it was n't there . |
| 17 | The passengers had n't over-enjoyed their sojourn in the station , it appeared , as they had been fallen upon by the flock of pressmen who had taken Xanthe back again to the brink of hysteria , and had asked Mercer whether it was n't unwise to flaunt the privilege of wealth in his private car , and had n't he invited trouble by adding it to the train ? |