Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 3 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 4 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 5 | You 've probably saved me from some kind of demonic sacrifice . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've also shown them to some bluegrass musicians , a guitarist and a mandolin player , and they say that they 're really fast once you get used to them . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , I would advocate studying some subject in depth , not necessarily as an undergraduate , so that you can feel you have really mastered it at some stage in your career . |
| 8 | The Tryons , in return , have frequently joined him for some fishing at Balmoral . |
| 9 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |