Example sentences of "had n't see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had n't seen her in over thirty years , there was one person in the world who might help me : my sister . |
| 2 | He had n't seen any posters in the village . |
| 3 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 4 | Would it have been easier if she had n't seen Lucy almost every day for four years going into or out of the office next door ? |
| 5 | That we would wait for our mother to come home from work with ‘ Lucky Packets ’ full of sherbet , that most of our childhood had been outdoors and here we were inside , with our dad home again , our dad who we had n't seen for four years , here we were having crossed the equator with nine suitcases , where flying fish leapt from the sea , to be in this place . |
| 6 | I had n't seen her sitting on a bench not far from the spot . |
| 7 | Some of the paintings almost reminded her of the Hudson Valley , but she had n't seen the Hudson River in nearly a year . |
| 8 | I had n't seen him smiling before . |
| 9 | We were going to see a film and I had n't seen a film before . |
| 10 | At the same time , our poet 's impromptu verses — often he had n't seen the film before — were in the complex scheme of Persian poetry , rhyming , scanning , and so on . |
| 11 | But we had n't seen him perform . |
| 12 | They had n't seen him in months . |
| 13 | Wexford winced and hoped she had n't seen . |
| 14 | I wish Mr Jackson had n't seen me crying — he 'll think I 'm a real baby . |
| 15 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 16 | Agnes said that she had n't seen the program . |
| 17 | Philip saw what he had n't seen before , a ‘ For Sale ’ notice stuck in a holly bush by the corner of the house . |
| 18 | He had n't seen Karen for years . |
| 19 | He had n't seen her eat anything for a long time . |
| 20 | She had n't seen what her father looked like . |
| 21 | One had n't seen her for ages . |
| 22 | Swire Sugden seemed very impressed with Mollie but then he had n't seen her with her skirt tucked in her bloomers showing her skinny legs . |
| 23 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
| 24 | Additionally , as the stallions had n't seen or heard the other behaving like a stallion — calling and courting mares , and threatening rivals — they had no particular reason to be suspicious of their travelling companion . |
| 25 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 26 | I later learned that he had n't seen Mr Rafter at all , but had hot-footed it back to Mullingar . |
| 27 | Glasses in hand , the chattering groups mixed and mingled , broke and re-formed , greeted each other with glad cries as if they had n't seen each other for years , not just that afternoon . |
| 28 | Glancing over my shoulder to make sure he had n't seen me , I jostled my way to the rear and sat down next to a window . |
| 29 | I had n't seen him since that early morning encounter several weeks before . |
| 30 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |