Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] be see for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Back came all the romance of train travel that had not been seen for fifty years .
2 And he had not been seen for some days .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 ?
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