Example sentences of "[verb] not see [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Mrs St Maugham asks a friend whom she has not seen for years to lunch . |
| 2 | The evening resumes in the bar have some merit in linking in the activities we do not see on film but had an embarrassing ‘ bar bore ’ quality . |
| 3 | Your practice partner makes the list ( which you do not see in advance ) and then gives the short descriptive sentence which provides a clue to the way in which the key word has been used . |
| 4 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 5 | People she had known forever , many of them , and had not seen for ages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Perhaps I envisaged pleasant , but traumatic , encounters with ex-course mates who I had not seen for years . |
| 8 | Her mouth had contracted in a manner Muriel had not seen for years . |
| 9 | A general wander up and down on a previous occasion had produced some interesting items , but I knew that the site had not seen past habitation . |
| 10 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 11 | After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years ! |
| 12 | Now was the main race , a true International with 17 nations on the start line , something we have not seen in Britain for some time despite the fact that the entry was limited because of the following week 's World Sprint Championships which caused some potential entrants to opt out . |