Example sentences of "[not/n't] seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one of these three patients the bleeding started in another ulcer not seen during the first endoscopy and therefore not treated with heater probe . |
| 2 | A general wander up and down on a previous occasion had produced some interesting items , but I knew that the site had not seen past habitation . |
| 3 | She raised her head , astonished and relieved that he had not seen through her . |
| 4 | In Tokyo , the Nikkei share index continued its nosedive into depths not seen for five years , despite government efforts to stimulate the slowing economy and the maudlin market . |
| 5 | Then Mrs St Maugham asks a friend whom she has not seen for years to lunch . |
| 6 | He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion . |
| 7 | He thought of his wife and child whom he had not seen for over a month . |
| 8 | These authors found that whereas enhanced platelet function ( increased aggregation to ADP ) was detectable as early as three days following induction of diabetes , elevated levels of the Factor VIII components were not seen for 14–28 days . |
| 9 | She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years . |
| 10 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 11 | Some parts of the house he had not seen for twenty years . |
| 12 | There was a flicker of response in them which Brian had not seen for a very long time . |
| 13 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 14 | In this new atmosphere the legislature displayed a determination to defend itself against executive encroachment , not seen for some years . |
| 15 | After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years ! |
| 16 | Perhaps I envisaged pleasant , but traumatic , encounters with ex-course mates who I had not seen for years . |
| 17 | These were friends not seen for a long time , visited now because there was something to celebrate . |
| 18 | The Act of 1918 set the scene of the entire political world between the wars , often through consequences that were not seen for a generation . |
| 19 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 20 | Her mouth had contracted in a manner Muriel had not seen for years . |
| 21 | Dong , because of his unusual height , had a clear view of the new arrivals above the heads of the crowd — and within a matter of seconds his startled eyes fell on two familiar faces that he had not seen for well over a year . |
| 22 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 23 | People she had known forever , many of them , and had not seen for ages . |
| 24 | My mother and I , that morning were to travel to Heathrow Airport to fly to Australia to see family and friends that we had not seen for over five years . |
| 25 | Benedict , at less than ten years of age , was himself delivered into the care of the mother he had not seen for almost two years . |
| 26 | When the Secretary of State was enjoying himself for about 10 minutes claiming that a large number of us supported CND , he offered some rays of hope and sunshine that I had not seen for some months . |
| 27 | Mr. Major said that the inflation figure was remarkable in a way not seen for many years . |
| 28 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 29 | Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year |
| 30 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |