Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 3 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 4 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 5 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 6 | His club , Northants , have already banned him for two games . |
| 7 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 8 | I mean , and she really known him for six months you know ? |
| 9 | He said , ’ Walker , I 've now known you for four years , and this is the first intelligent thing that you have done . ’ |
| 10 | A spokesman for the I R A said its active service unit had tragically mistaken them for British soldiers . |
| 11 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 12 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 13 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 14 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |
| 15 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 16 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 17 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 18 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 22 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 23 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 24 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 25 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 26 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 29 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 30 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |