Example sentences of "been [prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 2 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 3 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 4 | If it had n't been for her fat friend , she would have overslept . |
| 5 | He has been one of the driving forces behind Musselburgh 's revival and had it not been for his stout efforts earlier in the season , the Stoneyhill club would never have been in the promotion challenge . |
| 6 | Cameron would have faced a High Court sentence had it not been for his good record , the sheriff added . |
| 7 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 8 | ‘ No , ’ she mumbled , sagging suddenly , so that if it had n't have been for his firm grip she probably would have sunk to the ground , ‘ I did n't think . |
| 9 | Adam would have faced almost certain death if it had n't been for his quick thinking . |
| 10 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 11 | The year belonged to Keke Rosberg at Williams — though Ferrari 's Didier Pironi might well have won the championship had it not been for his grave accident in the rain at Hockenheim . |
| 12 | This tally could possibly have been a lot more had it not been for his unreliable behaviour in the show ring . |
| 13 | Kersey would have written him off as harmless had it not been for his extreme wariness . |
| 14 | ‘ If it had n't been for your ghastly aunt we 'd have been married by now . ’ |
| 15 | If it had n't been for your shiftless nephew , Suzie would be back in England by now , my mother would n't be having sleepless nights and I could be in London doing the job for which I 'm paid ! ’ |
| 16 | Fire-brigade or not , if it had n't been for your bright idea and splendid work and your friend 's race for help to the farmhouse the whole field would be ablaze , ’ said Farmer Olinton . |
| 17 | In spite of everything , her mind kept returning to Antoinette — seeing her face as it had been during their last confrontation in Monpazier , twisted with bitterness and hate . |
| 18 | At first , after the normal welcomes and politenesses , the pre-dinner drink , their bitch had been about their little boat . |
| 19 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 20 | He fought Christ 's battles there for ten years — it must have been like our brave missionaries now going into the wildest and most uncivilised parts of Africa — because the pagan King Morken was his enemy and envied the fame of Kentigern . |
| 21 | He had never been a party-goer and it had been against his better judgement that they agreed to join Ibn Fayoud 's party . |
| 22 | She knew it had been against his better judgement ; that all his own instincts had told him to wait , to take it more slowly . |
| 23 | Danny had mercifully been persuaded to leave his ghetto-blaster behind , but this had been against his better judgement , and Rachel soon realised his silence was in fact a form of sulking . |
| 24 | Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years . |
| 25 | She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister . |
| 26 | For a moment Leith wondered who the dickens he thought she had with her , then she remembered Naylor had been with her last night when Travis had called . |
| 27 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 28 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 29 | His jotting pad was covered with hot-air balloons , intricately patterned and decorated ; part of his mind had obviously been with his private passion . |
| 30 | The outcome showed both how near and how far Bohr had been with his improvising stab at reality . |