Example sentences of "not been seen for " in BNC.

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1 And he had not been seen for some days .
2 Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years .
3 The wide-field/planetary camera has produced its share of dramatic pictures , including detailed ones of a storm on Saturn the like of which has not been seen for 60 years .
4 Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting .
5 Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare .
6 Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare .
7 Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years .
8 The effect of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act and the Economic Recovery Tax Act was to move the United States in new directions in economic policy ; fundamental change of a sort that had not been seen for half a century .
9 As competitors and spectators sat in the sunshine on the Royal Canoe Club 's lawn at the finish , slowly unwinding and chatting to friends , some of whom had not been seen for quite some time , the atmosphere was a mixture of international competition and relaxed gentility .
10 At least , something which has not been seen for more than 20 years .
11 Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels .
12 The 70-year-old has not been seen for four weeks since leaving the Robert Huggins home for the elderly in Acklam .
13 The play 's pleasures are largely connoisseurial ( it has n't been seen for 20 years ) , though one suspects its absence from the stage is a case of understandable neglect .
14 I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days .
15 After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ?
16 Barbara Allsopp and her husband Alan have n't been seen for three days .
17 One of the mothers has been told her husband is missing , others have n't been seen for months .
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