Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 2 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 3 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 4 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 5 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 6 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 7 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 8 | alright he 's met you for five minutes but he 's come here I said this gang of children , I said the poor bugger 's not going to know what hit him I said alright if it 's just for Sally 's three I said he 's gon na be , he 's not gon na be relaxed I said I know that for a fact I said I know what it was like when I used to go and visit your people when I was |
| 9 | ‘ I have n't seen you for five minutes alone today , ’ I complained . |
| 10 | You know when I look vexed , I goes , because I hav n't seen you for few weeks , and he walked away , come are you walking back with us ? |
| 11 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 12 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 13 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 14 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 15 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 16 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 17 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 18 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 19 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 20 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 21 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 22 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 23 | He was quite categorical ; Passmore was there on Friday evening from about seven until closing time , but he had n't seen him for several weeks before then and he has n't seen him since . ’ |
| 24 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 25 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 26 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 27 | Sarah 's seen Sharon in town she says how 's things and she went and she says where 's Darren , have n't seen him for three days . |
| 28 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 29 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 30 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |