Example sentences of "have n't [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oscar has n't employed you for twenty-five years and kept his counsel . ’ |
| 2 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 3 | I realised that I had n't visited her for some weeks and agreed to go to her house after school . |
| 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 . |
| 16 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 17 | Town have n't beaten them for two years … |
| 18 | I still have n't forgiven you for bloody book antics of a |
| 19 | We have n't done it for two years . |
| 20 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 21 | I have n't seen her for bloody ages . |
| 22 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 23 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 24 | " He is , but we have n't seen him for many , many years , for more than we can remember . " |
| 25 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 26 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 27 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 28 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 29 | Sarah 's seen Sharon in town she says how 's things and she went and she says where 's Darren , have n't seen him for three days . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |