Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 2 | The management of the large Alhambra Theatre agreed to put this on for a week as a curtain-raiser to a horror film starring Boris Karloff . |
| 3 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 4 | That 's why there 's been no music on for a week . ’ |
| 5 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 6 | Educational Business Partnership which is part of Greater Nottingham Tec , major funders so they are er taking over the erm design centre on for a week . |
| 7 | shur shur shur shur shur shur shur , and this went on for a week an little teacher , Miss , she called out stop doing that ! |
| 8 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 10 | I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them . |
| 11 | The boy 's father , Gavin Lodge , said : If I could get hold of these idiots they would n't sit down for a week . ’ |
| 12 | And the boys come down for a week ! |
| 13 | Looks like you 'll have to sort of like put it up for a day and then take it down for a week and put it back in again . |
| 14 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 15 | I have n't had an evening in for a week now . |
| 16 | His clothes clung to his tall , slender frame , though they were slightly mussed after being slept in for a week . |
| 17 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 18 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 19 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 20 | That 's why we 'll keep her in for a week or so , for tests , but our consultant is very pleased with her — and very optimistic . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought she 'd be in for a week . ’ |
| 22 | We stayed in for a week |
| 23 | I bet that has n't got ta be in for a week ! |
| 24 | She 's not like thirty four weeks and the baby 's only twenty six and she 's got to stay in for a week at Southwood , then come home weekends and go back in . |
| 25 | And er and when that was been in the field whatever days , depending on the weather , if you 'd got a good dry summer well you 'd perhaps take it in in after a week , you see ? |
| 26 | If you do not have a computer or you are daunted by them ( or your computer breaks down within a week of your arrival in a remote village ) you will obviously have more papers to keep track of . |
| 27 | The problem there was the children climbing the fence and with just having spent five hundred and eighty pounds putting a fence up , spent another fifty four pounds although it 's not in the budget , I accept that , er was er a necessary expenditure which I took a decision on straight away because I did n't want to see our five hundred pound fence being knocked down within a week of being put up . |
| 28 | Things 'll quieten down in a week or so . ’ |
| 29 | We 've taken it over for a week or so . |
| 30 | It 's the only place you can get a bit of hokey-pokey , sizzling by day and guzzling by night , talk about dolce vita ! when you get your splints off come over for a week . |