Example sentences of "had not [vb pp] he for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His education had not prepared him for this in any way .
2 Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control .
3 Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days .
4 She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her .
5 ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway .
6 I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months .
7 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 . ’
8 I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’
9 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 .
10 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 .
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