Example sentences of "not [verb] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm glad to hear that , ’ Claudia said , not believing it for one moment . |
| 2 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 3 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 4 | Erm I know he 's not seen anyone for thirteen years but did , did it just come through the post , sign here , send it back |
| 5 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 6 | He quotes Thomas Jefferson : ‘ This country needs a rebellion every 20 years ' , and the USA has not had one for 200 . ’ |
| 7 | However , if you 've had years of not liking yourself for one reason or another , this can be very difficult . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 10 | In 1629 the King dissolved Parliament , castigating its leaders as ‘ vipers ’ , and did not recall it for eleven years . |
| 11 | urgh , and you sick it all up again , I could n't eat a thing , I could n't eat anything for two days . |
| 12 | The US does n't want one for three reasons . |
| 13 | Like because their account , you know , if you write , like if I wrote a cheque out to you today , and you did n't cash it for four weeks |
| 14 | We do n't need you for two weeks . |
| 15 | I would n't buy it for four hundred . |
| 16 | I have n't owned you for ten years . |
| 17 | He had n't felt anything for three days now . |
| 18 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 19 | , well the job 's worth more than ninety quid , I said , I do n't do it for ninety quid ! |
| 20 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 21 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 24 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 25 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 26 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 27 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 28 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |