Example sentences of "n't [verb] he for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 3 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 4 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 7 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 8 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 9 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |