Example sentences of "see [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody came to see me for three days . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't seen you for five minutes alone today , ’ I complained . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you realize that I have n't seen you for three whole days , Flavia ? |
| 6 | Mind you , I have n't seen him for sixteen years . |
| 7 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 8 | ‘ I had n't seen him for six years anyway . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had n't seen him for two months , more than two months . |
| 11 | I have n't seen him for two days . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 14 | I have n't seen him for three years or so . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She has n't seen him for 20 years and remembers him as a ‘ nice guy ’ . |
| 17 | I knew him , back in student days but I had n't seen him for ten years . ’ |
| 18 | I have n't seen her for two weeks now . |
| 19 | He had n't seen her for five years . |
| 20 | I have n't seen it for sixty year . ’ |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | ‘ Although he had not seen us for six weeks , he soon recognised us and started shouting Tuffin George all over the shop . ’ |
| 23 | And then the next little breath he 's off to America and you do n't see him for four weeks . |
| 24 | I really missed her if I did n't see her for six hours . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Xishe 's wife is allowed to see him for 45 minutes twice a year . |
| 27 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 29 | those four tapes , incidentally , I saw , you know the compil the Bach , Beethoven , Mozart and Tchaikovsky , I saw them for fifteen pound . |
| 30 | I saw erm we saw a campaign chair near Mold week before last it was I asked the guy how much put down on it , you know , he said thirty pounds so I sa , I said I saw it for forty . |