Example sentences of "it [verb] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | It focusses week after week on the same seven characters , all of whom have reached that certain stage in life — they 're having children , their marriages are foundering , they 're wondering what on earth they 're doing in their work , or their parents are dying . |
| 2 | It tooks weeks of planning … but was surprisingly quick to create … |
| 3 | So , erm er , the slide lectu , er and it says week two , but it means week two onwards . |
| 4 | I mean , it 's not a great , from a computing point of view , it 's not great having some erm you know vast faceless organisation which is going to make sure everything 's alright , because it means that when something goes wrong , it takes weeks and weeks and weeks to get it sorted out , because you have to fill in a form in triplicate , get it signed |
| 5 | No pay was given for Bank Holidays , with the result that it took weeks to recover from the loss of income . |
| 6 | Sometimes it took weeks to persuade an owner to surrender his pet . |
| 7 | It took weeks for the other prisoners to get over that ; they would just come up and touch me . |
| 8 | It took weeks of winning his trust before he finally let us film his operation . |
| 9 | So , erm er , the slide lectu , er and it says week two , but it means week two onwards . |