Example sentences of "[vb -s] [not/n't] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John remembers he has not eaten for twenty-four hours . |
| 2 | He will , however , not make up his mind whether to fly out Sam Torrance 's father , who he has not seen for six months , until after today 's final round in New Orleans , where he is also the defending champion . |
| 3 | GORDON Turner has launched a search for the pal he has not seen for forty years . |
| 4 | Holden 's story contains no suspense , while Lucy 's grips the reader totally ; for example she ‘ forgets ’ to inform the reader for six chapters that ‘ Dr. John ’ is in fact her cousin whom she has not seen for ten years ! |
| 5 | ‘ The English way has not altered for 30 years , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Although the office of Keeper of the Registers and Records has not existed for twenty-seven years we still receive mail in the Register House addressed to that official , as well as mail addressed to the wrong Keeper . |
| 7 | She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child . |
| 8 | ‘ He has n't exercised for five years and has no muscle tone left but now he is able to exercise in the gym . |
| 9 | Wolves goal machine , Steve Bull has n't scored for 9 games now . |
| 10 | Letting someone who is hungry and overweight , and who has n't eaten for six hours , loose in a supermarket should be a criminal offence ! |
| 11 | As an acquaintance put it , ‘ Richard would apply only if the university did something it has n't done for 500 hundred years — say it 's sorry . ’ |
| 12 | What makes this year so outstanding is that your ruling planet , Pluto , makes a 90-degree angle to Saturn — something that has n't happened for 20 years . |
| 13 | ‘ She has n't worked for seven years , ’ I said |
| 14 | Look at this kid : eighteen years old , three in the morning , has n't slept for two nights . |
| 15 | Or : ‘ Jane Ryle says she has n't slept for three nights . ’ |
| 16 | A water mill that has n't changed for one hundred and fifty years is up for sale as a unique country home . |
| 17 | Has n't changed for sixty million years . |
| 18 | This is the fifth home visit , and on-call duty does n't finish for eight more hours . |
| 19 | Now this does n't alter for one moment my recommendation of this as a superb performance , but I can well imagine a non-violinist , with less understanding of the extraordinary soloistic skill involved , homing in on and lambasting the accompaniment , giving only an average rating as a result . |