Example sentences of "[vb past] n't [vb pp] [pers pn] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 4 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 5 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |