Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] he for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 2 | This man would blow up a city without five seconds ' compunction — and she did not criticise him for that — but he would insist on good whisky , eat in good restaurants , like to travel first-class . |
| 3 | but yesterday morn he was , yesterday morning he started crying did n't he , I did n't leave him for any length of time |
| 4 | They did n't get him for that one ? |
| 5 | I did n't see him for several days . |
| 6 | This time the defeat of his hopes did n't crush him for more than a few days . |
| 7 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 8 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 9 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 10 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 11 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 12 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |