Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam , stopped fishing a week before his wife 's baby was due . |
| 2 | However , the August fishing became so appalling that my companion and I decided to try a week in May . |
| 3 | Gail , from Stepps , worked very hard for her success , which included spending a week of her holidays with young people as part of the residential section of her Award . |
| 4 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 5 | The Sardinian had resigned a week after Zen 's transfer , and he was the only one of his former colleagues whom Zen still saw regularly . |
| 6 | So I had to serve a week 's notice and I went down this er what 's the name of it ? |
| 7 | The pollution had occurred a week earlier . |
| 8 | Mr Mobutu said on Thursday he believed he could produce an agreement this month , after Mr Savimbi had had a week of talks with US officials , including 30 minutes with President Bush , and agreed to accept Mr Mobutu as mediator between his Unita guerrilla organisation and the Luanda government . |
| 9 | I had had a week in this quiet place in which to relax and order my thoughts — a week of peace to sustain me for this encounter , not to mention a good meal and a half-bottle of wine just consumed . |
| 10 | Our last cliff path led us above the water , west into the setting sun , to Mgarr where we had landed a week earlier . |
| 11 | Mihnea Marmeliuc , who returned as Minister of Labour and Social Security ( a post he had held in the NSF provisional government in January-June 1990 ) , immediately after his nomination was disowned by his National Liberal Party ( the second largest opposition party in parliament after the Hungarian Democratic Union ) ; the NLP had called a week before the reshuffle for the creation of an all-party coalition government . |
| 12 | Anna had arrived a week before the end of term , and so Christine had to go back to school , to her job , leaving Tony ( who had been granted paternity leave ) to cope on his own . |
| 13 | Despite her earlier fears , she proved to be an excellent subject , probably due in part to her desperation to be helped and partly to the fact that she had spent a week practising the relaxation technique and listening to my voice on cassette , so that she was comfortable with both . |
| 14 | We had spent a week at La Bérade — that little unspoilt mountain hamlet deep within the Dauphiné massif where Eric shipton stayed in 1925 for his first alpine season ; and though we 'd found the mountains bathed in light and little snow around as we drove slowly up the battered but stupendous road from St Christoph through Les Etages , his words about the view he had from the bus exactly mirrored our mood as we peered up through a windscreen at the hills : |
| 15 | After Elinor had spent a week in the nursing home , Annabel and Miranda were allowed to visit . |
| 16 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 17 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 18 | The first ceasefire to be brokered by the UN rather than the EC was negotiated in Geneva and came into force on Nov. 23 , after Vance had spent a week monitoring the situation in Yugoslavia . |
| 19 | On the day of the overdose , after her husband and daughter had gone to work , she had finished writing a suicide note which she had started a week before . |
| 20 | He now earns his living as a lorry driver , so he had taken a week 's holiday to compete at Wembley . |
| 21 | It had taken a week to obtain , and had Hapsburg officialdom realized that it was for him rather than Aranyos it would have been unlikely to arrive before the end of the war . |
| 22 | Early in their friendship , when Alice had to spend a week in London and Alex was away , she had given Meg one of her spare keys to the cottage so that she could go in to collect and forward her post . |
| 23 | One businessman had to take a week off work after scrap dealers used a nearby plot to burn insulation from copper cable . |
| 24 | Earlier , rescuers found another climber who had survived a week stranded on a peak . |
| 25 | ‘ She got married a week ago and went off with her husband . ’ |