Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [verb] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 2 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 3 | I had n't seen her since when we were on remand , and then we both got sentenced and got sent to different prisons , so I had n't seen her for nearly a year . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | The headmistress , who had always ridiculed her for being bad at games , now referred to her as ‘ our best pupil ’ and gave her a set of Shakespeare , duly inscribed . |
| 6 | One had n't seen her for ages . |
| 7 | Dad hated old Gran anyway , we had n't seen her for years and she always sent me Californian Poppy Bath Salts for Christmas . |
| 8 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 9 | She had only to take one look at him to realise he had n't forgiven her for walking out on him , nor for going to see Robert Dexter behind his back , and her heart sank . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 12 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 13 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 14 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 15 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |
| 16 | He had never forgiven her for reporting his indiscretion in front of her husband . |
| 17 | He had never asked her for her heart . |