Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] [vb pp] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 2 | For all her self-confidence , her upbringing had not prepared her for that . ’ |
| 3 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 4 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 5 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 6 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 7 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 9 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 10 | He had n't felt anything for three days now . |
| 11 | As I saw it , they were either downmarket Wimpy bars or precious bistros where all you could hear were the sounds of the cutlery hitting the plate , and people would cough before speaking because they had n't said anything for such a long time , what with all the hush . |
| 12 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 13 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 14 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 19 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 20 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 21 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |