Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] seen [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 2 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 3 | He had not seen her since early Friday morning . |
| 4 | Wycliffe had not seen her at first . |
| 5 | Nora had not seen her like that since the day she and Sam had arrived at Coutances . |
| 6 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 7 | Since then , he had returned only when his father was down at the harbour overseeing the refitting of the Russell , staying out all night and sleeping rough , and for the last three days she had not seen him at all . |
| 8 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 9 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 10 | Ramsay had not seen him since that day at Musselburgh when the good Regent Moray died and Seton had been sent off to Fife to try to hamper Balliol 's landing at Kinghorn , a gallant but unsuccessful endeavour in which Seton had been wounded . |
| 11 | I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself . |
| 12 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
| 13 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 14 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 16 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 17 | I 've not seen them in local garden centres , where can I obtain some ? |
| 18 | I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all . |
| 19 | I had n't seen her since that night at the Club and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing her again . |
| 20 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 21 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 22 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | ‘ But you had n't seen her on that occasion ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Bernice had n't seen them at first : their black silk cloaks merged into the darkness beyond the doorway , and only the jerky movements of the red-painted muzzles of their stubby blasters revealed their location . |
| 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 . ’ |