Example sentences of "he had not [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 2 | He put his arm around her shoulders , as he had not done for many years . |
| 3 | He had not moved for four , maybe five , hours . |
| 4 | In another undated letter to Gaunt Minton admits that owing to the pressure of illustrative work he had not painted for eight months . |
| 5 | Some parts of the house he had not seen for twenty years . |
| 6 | At Warrington , a deaf man decided to pay a visit to a relative he had not seen for some time , and set off to cycle there . |
| 7 | D'Arcy recognised the faces of several ex-special forces personnel whom he had not seen for some time . |
| 8 | By the time Crawford returned to the stage in mid-1971 , he had not worked for fourteen months . |