Example sentences of "had n't [be] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking down I saw they were in a puddle of water that had n't been there at the start and seemed to be oozing out of the ground . |
| 2 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 3 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 4 | Luckily for him Barry had n't been there . |
| 5 | He 'd walked into the boathouse and tried to pick up an envelope and the floor had given way beneath him and a piece of beam was missing , and if I had n't been there with him he would certainly have drowned in the dock , impaled on something lurking beneath the surface . |
| 6 | ‘ If John had n't been there I 'd have died without knowing it , I dare say . ’ |
| 7 | There was about an inch of water covering the floor that she was certain had n't been there when they 'd stopped at the cupboard . |
| 8 | ‘ Will you excuse me , Maggie , ’ he said , wetness in his eyes that had n't been there a moment ago . |
| 9 | If I had n't been there , Russell would have hit her . |
| 10 | If Uncle had n't been there to support me I do not know what would have become of me . |
| 11 | She felt a moment 's self-consciousness and doubt , because she knew she had changed , too ; that there were lines around the emerald eyes that had n't been there last time he saw her . |
| 12 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 13 | If only the photographers had n't been there , we might have been able to hush it up . ’ |
| 14 | The cars parked on the end of the runway did n't help either , but Spencer says now that he would n't have made the runway even it they had n't been there . |
| 15 | This is daft when you 've lost your job through no fault of your own ; when it really happened because your company had to contract , were firing people on the ‘ last in , first out ’ basis and you had n't been there long . |
| 16 | As I went out , past the shrouded furniture in the front room ( things made ready these twenty years past for the move that never came ) I noticed a Lowry reproduction hanging over the mantelpiece that had n't been there on my last visit . |
| 17 | Slowly Agatha got up , feeling twinges in her joints which had n't been there before . |
| 18 | The following day she had been able to tell him that he had n't been there , and had demanded the truth . |
| 19 | At the time he had assumed that she had simply contacted the address on some pretext and discovered that he had n't been there , but it was only later , when the argument had blown over , that he remembered that the address he had given his mother had been vacant . |
| 20 | Patrick Lundy had n't been there , neither had Joseph Hyde , but half a dozen men armed with pick-axe handles had been . |
| 21 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |
| 22 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 23 | It had n't been there before and no doubt would n't be tomorrow ; resting , I expect , on its journey from one universe to another . |
| 24 | And what 's more , Biddy would have liked me if you had n't been there . |
| 25 | Something that had n't been there before . |
| 26 | The black paint on the body was already peeling from the heat , though the Doctor guessed from the depth of the dust layer that it had n't been there more than a couple of days . |
| 27 | I had n't been there from the age of seven without learning what went down in Roundhay . |
| 28 | I had n't been there long . |
| 29 | There was a wildness in his eyes that had n't been there before . |
| 30 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |