Example sentences of "[adv] see [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had covered the blotter so that he had really only seen it for a short time . |
| 2 | That 's how I think of it : as my home , even though I only see it for a short time every year . |
| 3 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 4 | It was then that she really saw him for the first time and the blood began to sing in her ears . |
| 5 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |
| 6 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
| 7 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 8 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
| 11 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 12 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
| 13 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
| 14 | I only brought that one down because we have n't seen it for a long time , just choose one |
| 15 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 16 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 17 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |