Example sentences of "[verb] not [verb] for year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Mrs St Maugham asks a friend whom she has not seen for years to lunch . |
| 2 | He 's ready to leave the table , but he 's waiting to greet Doreen , whom he has n't seen for years . ’ |
| 3 | It has n't worked for years . ’ |
| 4 | The greetings were warm and elaborate , like those of old friends who had not met for years . |
| 5 | Mr Wolski thought of his friend the eagle who was struggling for life through this long night Then he did something he had not done for years , for decades , since before the darkness came to his own life in the Second World War : he said a silent prayer . |
| 6 | In the upstairs passage she opened the long case clock , knowing very well it was broken , that the weights had not descended for years and the hands remained at twenty to one . |
| 7 | One of them was that he opened his morning newspaper with an enthusiasm he had not felt for years . |
| 8 | She had promised Julie that she would be well enough to get up the following day and they would take a trip in the pony and trap to visit friends in the area who Julie had not seen for years . |
| 9 | Perhaps I envisaged pleasant , but traumatic , encounters with ex-course mates who I had not seen for years . |
| 10 | Her mouth had contracted in a manner Muriel had not seen for years . |
| 11 | It was air into which farts and old food odours had been released , but which was completely inert , as though in some way lacking ions or ozone , because the air conditioner had not worked for years and the windows were sealed . |
| 12 | Until we drove up and over the Atlas , I had not thought for years about our time in London . |
| 13 | When he had first examined me , my GP had suggested vitamins and we discussed the facts that I had n't smoked for years and that , on the whole , my food was n't too bad . |
| 14 | In the evening we all got dressed up to go to a ball nearby , and over dinner I had a good chance to catch up with some friends I had n't seen for years , and meet various husbands too ! |
| 15 | It was like discovering an old trick , something he had n't done for years and had thought was dead — unnerving but not entirely unpleasurable . |
| 16 | They had n't met for years . |
| 17 | But since the day when Willi had brought her up here , to his farm , she had won back something she had n't had for years , a sense of balance , of proportion , a sense that there were a great many other things , other people in the world other than Therese Aschmann and her problems . |
| 18 | Clothes had n't mattered for years , of course , but towards the end of the eighties , the phrases power-dressing and anti-stress eating program had filtered through to her and now Alex dressed and ate for every occasion . |
| 19 | For all at once she could feel sweeping in on her a sense of utter desolation , the like of which she had n't known for years . |
| 20 | We get a lot of people who have not cycled for years , they cycle tentatively for an hour , but then come back again to cycle the whole trail . |
| 21 | After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years ! |
| 22 | It will certainly not seem long if you work consistently toward daily targets , in a few weeks you 'll be doing things you have n't done for years , or never thought possible . |
| 23 | Every night I do something I have n't done for years . |
| 24 | no , so we did n't have an invite I know , I mean normally I 'm taken every year you know , there , to see the old time musical which is great and I look forward to that but cos I did n't get , get there and I love going to Leah Manning as I say we have dancing there on a Wednesday afternoon it 's great , I enjoy it ever so much and I meet all my friends there that I have n't seen for years , you know , that I used to go to clubs with and they 've all arrived there now you know it 's great to see them , I thoroughly enjoy it . |
| 25 | It offers older people the chance to revisit places of interest which they maybe have n't seen for years . |
| 26 | She … well , as you know we have n't met for years , and she … she moves in quite different circles , among the elite of Durham , and he 's a churchman connected with the Cathedral . ’ |
| 27 | I have n't played for years . ’ |
| 28 | When you wheel your trolley around the supermarket , you could be forgiven for thinking that our basic foods have n't changed for years . |
| 29 | I have n't dreamed for years , and I was saying that to the girls , I had like , three nights of a really scary dream . |
| 30 | Her father , whom she obviously dotes on and has the highest respect for , thinks he 's a highly suspicious character — he and Andropulos have n't spoken for years . |