Example sentences of "had [not/n't] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not played it since two months before Catherine was born . |
| 2 | I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 4 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 7 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 8 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 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 . |
| 10 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |