Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [vb pp] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 2 | He had n't felt anything for three days now . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 5 | Well he had n't seen her for many years ? |
| 6 | She even told them about the nice young man who said he had n't seen her for some time . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 11 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |