Example sentences of "[vb pp] he for [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 I have n't seen him for many years . ’
2 Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years .
3 ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway .
4 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 .
5 I 've not seen him for twenty years .
6 I have n't seen him for three years or so .
7 She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ .
8 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 .
9 I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’
10 The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly .
11 She had known him for many years .
12 Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ?
13 But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace .
14 Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years .
15 I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him .
16 I 've known him for seven years .
17 He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him .
18 He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues .
19 In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States .
20 His squad of reporters , a dozen strong , who had tailed him for five years , was disbanded .
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