Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 2 | Oscar has n't employed you for twenty-five years and kept his counsel . ’ |
| 3 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 4 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 5 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 6 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 8 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 9 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 10 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 11 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 12 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 13 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 14 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 15 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 16 | Well yeah , and yes they 've just asked them for forty grand more have n't they ? |
| 17 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 18 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 19 | He said , ’ Walker , I 've now known you for four years , and this is the first intelligent thing that you have done . ’ |
| 20 | A spokesman for the I R A said its active service unit had tragically mistaken them for British soldiers . |
| 21 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 22 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 23 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 24 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 25 | erm she was hefty though and her sister Ann used to be enormous years ago this is , and erm she went on a , a diet , I do n't know what , how , how she lost the weight but she did and I , I had n't seen her for some years and I remember her coming to the factory this day , and she came in and she , she used to do er her flower shop , she used to do flower arrangements and the girls at work would order them you know ? |
| 26 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 27 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 28 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 29 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 30 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |