Example sentences of "not see [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt a contentment when he was in her company that he missed when he did not see her for a while . |
| 2 | At first I can not see her for the heaps of people about her bedside , brandished with packaged sweets and magazines and flowers of white and purple . |
| 3 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 4 | You 'll see — I 'll probably not see him for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 5 | The hair on his face was untrimmed , and his nose had spread with drinking , but the weather-hard skin was not the skin of a drunkard , and if the hair on his temples was thinning , you could not see it for the leather fillet he wore . |
| 6 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 7 | She did n't see him for a few days after that , and had time to wonder why she had made it all up . |
| 8 | She was still searching for the right words to describe how she felt when he suddenly got up and went to meet more guests , and she did n't see him for a long time . |
| 9 | Gusev 's family did n't see him for the rest of the weekend . |
| 10 | I did n't want Mary to go because I thought I would n't see her for a long time , and I ran over to her and pleaded . |