Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you sent your work to a publisher and have not heard from them for two months , you should write to ask them whether or not they intend to publish it . |
| 2 | His father had even telephoned his ex-wife to tell her about what had happened and she had then spoken to Tony , who had not heard from her for some months . |
| 3 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 4 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 5 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 6 | A 19-year-old single girl took an overdose of tablets after claiming to be in love with a priest — despite the fact she had not spoken to him for four years . |
| 7 | She had n't heard from her for some time . |
| 8 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 9 | There is one woman who regularly gazes across to her old home at Wouldham and if her brother is in his garden can see him plainly , but has n't spoken to him for several years . |
| 10 | One of the thousands — Wotai 's is part of T'zin 's tuman , but they have n't served with him for several years , and they were always a bit leery of him . |