Example sentences of "seen [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't seen Malc for some months . |
| 2 | You have n't seen Alexander for a long time , have you ? |
| 3 | He had n't seen Karen for years . |
| 4 | and , and , well and to you as well Viv but er I have n't seen Viv , I have n't seen Pete for a while . |
| 5 | Christina had n't seen Martin for about six months , since Stephen had made it plain how much he objected even to a friendship between them . |
| 6 | She had seen salvation for him in McAllister , that was for sure , and if Neil was more doubtful , about that and about her , with Havvie 's hateful words still ringing in his head , and his memory of her tortured face growing the more painful whenever he recalled it , the passing of time only accentuated the agony of his loss . |
| 7 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 8 | We have n't seen Helen for ages now have we ? |
| 9 | They stared at each other for a moment before Mick added , ‘ You 've never seen Carrie for years , have you ? ’ |
| 10 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 11 | But 1992 has seen changes for the better . |
| 12 | Ah , I only said to Chris the other day , I thought god I have n't seen Trevor for ages , I honestly did and I , I did n't think you know , anything wrong with him . |
| 13 | Oh he 's in hospital , I did n't know a thing about it , I 've been saying when we 've been to the Pentam , we have n't seen Trevor for a while , we have n't seen Trevor , and even Barry at the Pentam did n't tell me , he thought I knew |
| 14 | Ten of the Ver 's 15 miles have not seen water for more than five years . |
| 15 | You 've seen you 've seen figures for intestacy . |
| 16 | I had not seen Hugo for three hours . |
| 17 | This may be the first piece of half-good news in three years for defence manufacturers who have seen orders for new equipment shrink even faster than national defence budgets ( chart 1 ) . |
| 18 | A pretty little thing it was , with dark hair : well , you 've seen Emily for yourself . ’ |
| 19 | Gatsby is very nervous , as he has n't seen Daisy for many years and if she no longer loves him his whole purpose for living has gone . |
| 20 | Zambia had not seen Alix for months , ever since she 'd set up home with the kid with prosthetic limbs who claimed his disfigurement was due to a variety of fantasies , all of which were subject to detail change , and none of which ever sounded convincing . |
| 21 | And anyway , I have n't seen Billy for Christ knows how long , and I never knew him well . |
| 22 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 23 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 24 | Nick stuffed and stuffed as if he had n't seen food for weeks but Carrie could hardly eat anything . |
| 25 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 26 | ‘ Why , we have n't seen Flora for years . ’ |
| 27 | For a start , she had n't seen Rosemary for fifteen minutes and she did not want her to feel left out . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd not even seen Leanne for about four months and then she was with him , but I got half my arm blown away . ’ |