Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun] " 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 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 3 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 4 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 6 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 7 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 8 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 9 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 10 | Well yeah , and yes they 've just asked them for forty grand more have n't they ? |
| 11 | His club , Northants , have already banned him for two games . |
| 12 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 13 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 14 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 15 | I mean , and she really known him for six months you know ? |
| 16 | He said , ’ Walker , I 've now known you for four years , and this is the first intelligent thing that you have done . ’ |
| 17 | A spokesman for the I R A said its active service unit had tragically mistaken them for British soldiers . |
| 18 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |
| 19 | I still have n't forgiven you for bloody book antics of a |
| 20 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 21 | 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gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 22 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |
| 25 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 26 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 27 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 28 | " 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 . |
| 29 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 30 | 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 ? |