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 . |