Example sentences of "[not/n't] see [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 2 | I 've not seen her for ages . ’ |
| 3 | I have not seen her for days . ’ |
| 4 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 5 | I 'd not seen her for quite some time , you know . |
| 6 | Not seen him for months . |
| 7 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 8 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 9 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 10 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 12 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 13 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 14 | I had not seen them for over two years . |
| 15 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 16 | ‘ I had not seen you for over six months , ma'am , it was merely surprise that you have lost a little colour … ’ |
| 17 | So mm it were just a case of a flying visit cos we 've not seen you for nearly twelve months . |
| 18 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 19 | If they have not seen it for themselves then it can not be true . |
| 20 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
| 21 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 22 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 23 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 24 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But you 'd better not see him for too long . |
| 26 | We work all year round but ca n't work on the uplands during the winter months — we might not see it for six to eight weeks . |
| 27 | What was found tomorrow , though they did not see it for newspapers were beyond their means , was a further notice from Robert Asshe to the effect that he would not be responsible for his daughter 's debts . |
| 28 | ( I remember it well for the sun shortly afterwards disappeared and we did not see it for weeks . ) |
| 29 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 30 | Yet as our relationship deepened , you seemed to abstract yourself , and sometimes I would not see you for days on end . |