Example sentences of "had n't been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pamela had n't been to the tiny next-door island for years but she remembered its wild , deserted beaches , its spectacular rocky promontories , the surprising wheat fields among the rocky landscape that had given the island its name . |
| 2 | He had n't been to the Martins ' for lunch since Antoinette died . |
| 3 | I had n't been to the mere for a week or two so did n't really know if the bream would still be moving or not . |
| 4 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 5 | No I had n't been to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 6 | I had n't been to the Far East . |
| 7 | if arrangements had n't been made for her to go to Australia might be , she has n't been may have you know , she still had n't been to the doctors |
| 8 | If it had n't been for the Yeti , I 'd never have met Malcolm McLaren or Johnie Rotten . |
| 9 | It 's Sir Ralph Halpern 's view that if it had n't been for the current worldwide recession , many more outside brands would have been introduced to the UK market . |
| 10 | I might have travelled at almost eight thousand inches an hour if it had n't been for the stops . |
| 11 | However none of these exhibitions could have happened if it had n't been for the groundbreaking work carried out by Lubaina Himid since the late 70s . |
| 12 | If it had n't been for the canter Nails would not have been terribly keen for another lesson , but the canter had given him dreams above his station . |
| 13 | He spoke honestly , but more harshly than he would have done if it had n't been for the pain he carried . |
| 14 | She would have rung him , if it had n't been for the tall constable standing meaningfully by the telephone . |
| 15 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course , he 'd never have made it if it had n't been for the skill of our local doctor ’ |
| 17 | Despite his personal trauma , his professionalism would never have been in question — if it had n't been for the drink and drugs . |
| 18 | Nobody would have known that he was planning to puff on home-grown cannabis in Wales if it had n't been for the ironic coincidence that another Mr Perkins had mistakenly opened a package addressed to the actor . |
| 19 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for the breastplate of blood , he could have been asleep , legs stuck out , head slumped forward , his woollen cap slipped over his right eye . |
| 21 | Come to think of it , Columbia would n't have been around if it had n't been for the blues . |
| 22 | If it had n't been for the proximity of the tall dour houses and the unexpected kindness of a young girl , Craig would have been recaptured at once . |
| 23 | If it had n't been for the help from her children she could n't have managed it . |
| 24 | I knew you 'd rather have been off on your own , if it had n't been for the children . |
| 25 | Part of it was my upbringing , of course , but I could easily have had a violent reaction away from that if it had n't been for the inhibiting atmosphere in the company itself . |
| 26 | Not even being allowed to come and see you — if it had n't been for the Suvarovs I think I 'd have gone mad . ’ |
| 27 | I am no molecular biologist , and would n't have dreamed of learning the techniques required to detect the immediate early genes , if it had n't been for the serendipitous arrival in the lab of a young molecular biologist from Moscow , Kostya Anokhin ( grandson of the psychologist and physiologist pupil of Pavlov , Peter Anokhin , whose ‘ functional systems theory ’ I referred to in passing in Chapter 9 ) . |
| 28 | If it had n't been for the Neds ' moral scruples , those garments could have been bigger and cooler than F**k . |
| 29 | If it had n't been for the machinations of Horemheb … ’ |
| 30 | It was one of her own designs , but whether she would ever have worn it , if it had n't been for the interfering Roman Wyatt , she did n't know . |