Example sentences of "[not/n't] see [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I left her alone , locking the door behind me , and did not see her again ( she developed bronchitis , was taken into the cottage hospital and died soon afterwards ) . |
| 2 | I did not see her again until during the afternoon lessons , when I noticed that she had been sent to stand alone in the middle of the schoolroom . |
| 3 | He resigned himself to the single thought , that he would not see her again . |
| 4 | Before she disappeared on Friday morning Miss Baxter wrote her father a note saying she had ‘ had enough ’ and that he would not see her again . |
| 5 | Wendy was still living in Old Wolverton , and because of her shift work I did not see her very often ; and most of those with whom I had been friendliest were billeted in outlying areas . |
| 6 | Do you not see her much Jean ? |
| 7 | He did not see her precisely as she saw herself but it could have been very much worse . |
| 8 | Put your brush down ; I will lie with you , then I will go , and you will not see me again . ’ |
| 9 | I expect you will not see me again , eh ? |
| 10 | I pray that she will not see me now . |
| 11 | He would not see me there ; he condescended to see me at my hotel . |
| 12 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 13 | I could not see him well ; he was mainly hidden behind trees , and motionless . |
| 14 | I will not see him again until I am nine years old . |
| 15 | Still — ‘ I did not see him again and I did not want to ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh well , ’ she said , ‘ you may not see him again . |
| 17 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |
| 18 | She did not see him again . |
| 19 | But perhaps Gabriel and Boldwood were right , and she should not see him again ? |
| 20 | He died in 1942 and it is my lasting regret that after I left Oxford I did not see him again ; I still have the letters he wrote me when I was in the Sudan . |
| 21 | ‘ If we do not see him again — for we must take that possibility into account — you are his next of kin and his sole heiress . |
| 22 | And how dared the man standing between herself and the light so that she could not see him clearly speak so harshly of what she had done ? |
| 23 | When he got back , Lucie was not in the barn ; he could not see him anywhere . |
| 24 | She was meeting Terry at Holborn , and prayed her brothers would not see him there . |
| 25 | He said today : ‘ I just can not see him ever coming back , not after this length of time . |
| 26 | There were some old pictures on the walls , but they were covered with dust and dirt and he could not see them clearly . |
| 27 | You would not see them here in the forest . |
| 28 | But he knew he would not see them here — they were much further north and anyway he would know he was near them when the crows gave way to a different more sinister corvid-the hooded crows , the vicious crows whose kind had once nearly succeeded in killing Minch when she was trapped near Callanish . |
| 29 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
| 30 | There is only one road over the mountains and down to the desert , so it was stupid to assume — as I had done , without really thinking about it — that we should not see them again . |