Example sentences of "[vb past] n't been [prep] [adj] " 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 | ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’ |
| 4 | If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’ |
| 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 | There were no sounds of any kind coming from Alina 's bedroom , and had n't been for more than an hour . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ My parents and I had n't been on good terms for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 11 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 12 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 13 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 14 | If you had n't been in such a foul temper — ’ |
| 15 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 18 | It had n't been like that , she wanted to howl . |
| 19 | It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen … |