Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] for [adj] months " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this matter , I seem to miss those issues to which you contribute articles : I have not seen one for many months now . |
| 2 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 3 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 4 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 5 | They 've had them for two months . |
| 6 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 7 | I mean , and she really known him for six months you know ? |
| 8 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 9 | His friend Razumikhin , a truthful witness , has known him for eighteen months . |
| 10 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 11 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 12 | Admirable as such schemes seemed from St Petersburg , they looked very different on the ground : it was reported from one ‘ city ’ designated an administrative hub that no one had entered or left it for three months . |