Example sentences of "[not/n't] see [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd not seen him for six months .
2 I 've not seen him for twenty years .
3 I had not seen him since 1982 , but when we met again in his home near Salzburg in March 1988 to record radio and television interviews on the occasion of his 80th birthday he was quite unchanged , as courteous and welcoming as ever and perfectly settled within himself .
4 ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’
5 ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next .
6 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 .
7 He had n't seen her for five years .
8 I have n't seen her for two weeks now .
9 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 .
10 A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years .
11 Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years .
12 I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months .
13 I have n't seen him for two days .
14 ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway .
15 She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ .
16 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 .
17 I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’
18 I have n't seen him for three years or so .
19 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 .
20 She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to .
21 ‘ I have n't seen you for five minutes alone today , ’ I complained .
22 ‘ Do you realize that I have n't seen you for three whole days , Flavia ?
23 I have n't seen it for sixty year . ’
24 And then the next little breath he 's off to America and you do n't see him for four weeks .
25 I really missed her if I did n't see her for six hours .
26 So they do n't see it as two conflicting aims , they see er the two sort of complementing one another .
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