Example sentences of "had n't been [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they drove out of town , along the quiet roads to the country , it became clear to Juliet that the brandy and soda her father had given him had n't been Nigel 's first drink of the evening . |
| 2 | If she had n't been Mrs Arbuthnot , he 'd have told anyone else to stop spoiling her and give her work to do around the house . |
| 3 | If it had n't been Mario , you 'd have thought it was schmaltz ; with Mario , it was peppered with self-irony , with seriousness , punctuated with laughter , with suddenly remembered incidents . |
| 4 | If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way . |
| 5 | So it had n't been Johnny up there this morning , after all . |
| 6 | Silvia had just came through the front door — that car had n't been Guido after all . |