Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] year " 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 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 3 | He said , ’ Walker , I 've now known you for four years , and this is the first intelligent thing that you have done . ’ |
| 4 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 5 | 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gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 6 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 7 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 10 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 12 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 13 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 17 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 18 | I have n't seen it for sixty year . ’ |
| 19 | There is nothing worse than being told ‘ Yes , we had a lovely book all about the fête we held for the coronation , but I have n't seen it for some years . |
| 20 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 21 | I have n't drawn it for two years now , but … 'She glanced swiftly at her bag , her watch . |
| 22 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 23 | Oscar has n't employed you for twenty-five years and kept his counsel . ’ |
| 24 | Town have n't beaten them for two years … |