Example sentences of "n't [vb pp] him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 2 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 3 | Oh I was very , I have n't seen him for a while , being ill you do n't , but er , he was always sending messages of good will when I was in hospital . |
| 4 | They got worried when they had n't seen him for a while . |
| 5 | I have n't seen him for a while actually . |
| 6 | I have n't seen him for a day or two , ’ said the girl , ‘ but he usually comes in about now . ’ |
| 7 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 8 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 9 | We have n't used him in a while . ’ |
| 10 | The father went on : ‘ I believe she said he had stopped breathing for a couple of seconds , and if we had n't had him at the hospital when it happened we would have more than likely lost him . ’ |
| 11 | The knowing look in his eyes let her know she had n't fooled him for an instant , but he gave a single nod . |
| 12 | She had n't recognised him from the back , and now she stared at him in surprise . |
| 13 | But they had n't conceived him as a duty , merely to increase the number of Imperials on the planet . |
| 14 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |