Example sentences of "and [adv] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 2 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 3 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 4 | ‘ And just a week before she was due to start . ’ |
| 5 | Two days after seeing my surgeon and exactly a week before going into hospital , aided by my wife , I crawled up to London and met the hero of the book . |
| 6 | The ancestral lady was not , however , to be put off , and hardly a week went by when she did not telephone or call on some pretext , bringing her gardener in tow to take cuttings or dig up bulbs , and keeping up her barrage of accusing questions , inquiring , for instance , in her peremptory manner , what Jane was going to ‘ do about ’ the long-neglected yew hedge . |
| 7 | You will be greeted with a welcome drink , and once a week you can enjoy a romantic candle-lit dinner . |
| 8 | Dinner is a choice of three different menus , and once a week there is a barbecue . |
| 9 | And once a week one of the waiters takes guests on a free guided walk . |
| 10 | Mike would be hurrying along , anxious to get home , carrying his training bag and once a week , sometimes twice , he would inevitably be stopped and be antagonistically grilled : where have you been … where are you going … what 's in this bag … training gear , a likely story , and then they would search the bag before reluctantly letting him go on his way . |
| 11 | In the evenings he refused to talk — this was a vow of silence — and once a week he fasted for a day . |
| 12 | There is a choice of well-prepared menu for all meals , and once a week there is a pizza party and a Happy Hour when guests can socialise in a real holiday atmosphere . |
| 13 | Founded in 1764 , the Club was not ( as is often assumed ) Johnson 's brain-child : Boswell 's Life makes it clear that the idea came from Joshua Reynolds ; and once a week they met at seven in the evening , in the Turk 's Head , a Soho hostelry . |
| 14 | It was a market town , and once a week it was quite busy for a few hours . |
| 15 | And as for all special schools there is an obligation to provide a scheme for local management of special schools with effect from April this year er we consulted there was a little bit of chasing which had to take place in which you can see in section four of the report but following that chasing , we now ascertain meeting schools on favourable proposals for or against and once a week that , a view of and also undertaking as you know . |
| 16 | A week 's good work and then a week of drought , wrote Harsnet . |
| 17 | If a weaning process is required , the parent can progressively increase the requirements for earning a sticker , for example two nights , then three , and then a week of dry beds before a sticker is allocated . |
| 18 | Although the first two rounds of this year 's Davis Cup , one week after the Australian Open and then a week after Lipton , made it possible for him to fit them into his tournament programme for the first three months of the year when his number one ranking was under such threat , he says , ‘ The Davis Cup is certainly one of my priorities now . ’ |
| 19 | He forgave her , and then a week later he and Keeley came home from the Beaux Arts Club to find her sitting on the basement steps , smiling nice as pie . |
| 20 | And then a week later with someone else I find I 'm arguing as he would argue . |
| 21 | Well they 're appearing at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham tonight in concert , and then a week on Friday , November the twelfth they 're at the Ritz at Lincoln so welcome back . |
| 22 | There 's only the local GP here and twice a week a doctor from Poggibonsi does a round . |
| 23 | They 'd always taught her that the only truly good things were those of permanent value ; her first school had been a church school , and twice a week they 'd had to set their chairs in a raggedy half-circle and fidget their way through one of the vicar 's haranguing lectures on Life . |
| 24 | What I mean by that is , when you get back to your branches , you will go onto further training programmes in branch training , developing your practice training , so each branch will vary how they sort of co-ordinate this , but let's say , we 've been in a few months now , and twice a week we 've got to go in for training . |
| 25 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |