Example sentences of "it be [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Think carefully before you decide — will it be just for you , or will other members of your family want to use the computer ? |
| 2 | Something that she would have grasped , if it were n't for her own stupidity . |
| 3 | And she might have been able to deal with the situation — might , indeed , have been able to suppress and finally bury such an errant emotion — if it were n't for her present situation . |
| 4 | Floating there , it could have been a bath toy duck , daintily hand-painted by some artistic genius , plaything of a princess , if it were n't for its air of fragility , and slim — needle-slim — bill . |
| 5 | I might be impressed and affected by this sudden talent for suffering , if it were n't for its monotony : fear , just fear , fear only . |
| 6 | ‘ If it were n't for what you 've been through , I 'd break your jaw . ’ |
| 7 | His restlessness permeated the entire house , and she felt guilty , certain that her presence was tying him to Gullholm , that if it were n't for her he would go home , or visit one or other of his sisters or his mother , all of whom made regular telephone calls . |
| 8 | Peace reigns at last though , and everything in the smouldering remains of the garden would be rosy if it were n't for one little problem . |
| 9 | Where would you be now if it were n't for me ? |
| 10 | ‘ If it were n't for me giving you a roof over your head after your mother had the gall to die on me , you would have ended up in the bloody workhouse ! |
| 11 | ‘ If it were n't for me old bones and the fact that I might be overlooked when the bidding starts , I would n't want you within a mile of that sale room . |
| 12 | If it were n't for my kids now I 'd be doing untold things . |
| 13 | If it were n't for my sister I 'd turn the whole matter over to the police and let them find Garry . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 15 | And him with nothing to his name if it were n't for my late mistress ! ’ |
| 16 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 17 | In the car , on the homeward journey , Cassie found herself reflecting , as she glanced covertly at his profile and at the thin hands lightly gripping the steering wheel … those same brown and capable hands that had figured so prominently in her earlier fantasies … that he would make the perfect lover , if it were n't for his apparent indifference to women ; and perhaps , also , to having sex ; although this last was only an assumption . |
| 18 | If it were n't for our export orders , our figures would be looking rather sick . |
| 19 | ‘ If it were n't for your penny-pinching ways I would n't be so eager to spend my time in London . |
| 20 | Externalisation or blaming — accepting that there are significant problems but blaming anything other than alcohol or drug use for their cause : " If it were n't for you I 'd be okay " . |
| 21 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd never have been out there in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If it were n't for you I 'd have been fish-food by now . ’ |
| 23 | Oh well it were n't to me cos I probably would have given you the eight |
| 24 | I do n't know what pocket he would have put it in then cos it were n't in his coat pocket . |
| 25 | It were n't in my paper this morning |
| 26 | If it were up to me , I 'd jock you off for the rest of the season . |
| 27 | ‘ How do you mean ‘ if it were up to me ’ ? ’ |
| 28 | And if it were up to me , I 'd just want to talk about music , about a certain passage of Mozart and how I would place the emphasis at certain points , and how I feel I 'm a good interpreter at the piano , but not particularly a good technician … ‘ |
| 29 | If it were not for them he would not be free , he said . |
| 30 | At the western outskirts of the town is the Bliss Valley Tweed Mill , an imposing stone-built factory which , if it were not for its chimney rising from a domed tower , would look like a great country mansion . |