Example sentences of "not [verb] him for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 2 | I 'd not seen him for six months . |
| 3 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 5 | I 've not seen him for twenty years . |
| 6 | Police broke in after neighbours had not seen him for several days . |
| 7 | Holding that the defence was not available the court in effect classified the defendant 's belief that the arrest was unlawful as a mistake of law , which could not avail him for these purposes . |
| 8 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |