Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] see [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was wrapped up in an officer 's uniform ; you could n't see me for fur and leather . |
| 4 | Unlike me , she could n't see you for what you are . ’ |
| 5 | Mind you , Gedanken could n't see it for long . |
| 6 | ‘ When she started staying with friends I would not see her for about a week or so , but I was not concerned . |
| 7 | Yet as our relationship deepened , you seemed to abstract yourself , and sometimes I would not see you for days on end . |
| 8 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 9 | He would come several times in a week and then you would n't see him for ages . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |
| 11 | ‘ Sha n't see her for hours . |
| 12 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |
| 13 | " You wo n't see her for another half an hour . " |
| 14 | First ferry and then you wo n't see us for dust . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |