Example sentences of "[was/were] [pers pn] [adv] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 2 | They would look incongruous , like far-flung gouchos , were it not for their high-stepping Icelandic ponies . |
| 3 | They are the same size , have the same green skin , and overall it would be hard to tell one from another were it not for their distinctive styles of dress and skin painting . |
| 4 | He has shown Matthew a great deal of kindness , and you have to admit that , were it not for my father 's offer of friendship , Matthew would be a very lonely soul . |
| 5 | Edwin , I would be utterly desolate were it not for my faithful companion here . |
| 6 | She would not have the heart to do it , were it not for his own good . |
| 7 | There would be literally no relationship between a man and his son-in-law were it not for his daughter , and so on . |
| 8 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 9 | Were it not for his defeat by Country Member at the same course in February , he would be half his present odds . |
| 10 | You could be emperor of the universe by now , were it not for your habit of turning your hypercritical gaze inward instead of using it to devastate others . |
| 11 | I am satisfied that even in Paris a church erected after the model of this temple would be admired , were it only for its singular style of architecture , and its extraordinary appearance . ’ |