Example sentences of "[vb past] not seen he for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 2 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 3 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 4 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 5 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |