Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Promise me only to stay a week . ’ |
| 2 | I just spent a week in Iraq and they used one photo with no other stories playing . |
| 3 | ‘ I once had a week in a boarding-house called St Monica 's , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ When I ever have a week off , I try and visit a new city in Europe . ’ |
| 5 | I 've watched a lot of American campaigning at close quarters including the primaries and presidential election of 1980 , the Republican Convention in 1984 ( when I also spent a week travelling with Ronald Reagan ) and the most recent Republican |
| 6 | The first of these is the lack of interest shown by the general public for the game , which only appears a week or so before Wimbledon and disappears a week or so afterwards . |
| 7 | MPs at Westminster are increasingly aware of the pervasive impact of Europe on their activities which barely see a week pass without some debate on EC directives . |
| 8 | See , er now , coming to that , holidays , er you only had a week 's holiday , with no pay . |
| 9 | The year 's calendar will be : 12 January to 20 February , ‘ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ’ , a body of work produced by William Tillyer , Maggi Hambling , Maurice Cockrell and Wendy Connelly who all spent a week painting in County Sligo ; 23 February to 1 April , ‘ Ivon Hitchens centenary exhibition ’ , commemorating the centenary year of the artist 's birth ; April 5 to 1 May , ‘ Wendy Connelly ’ , the artist 's first one-person show since graduating from St Martin 's in 1991 ; 5 May to 5 June , ‘ William Tillyer ’ , oils and watercolours from the Yorkshire-based artist ; 8 June to 4 September ‘ British Landscape painting 1750–1993 ’ , from Richard Wilson and Gainsborough to Constable , Palmer , Spencer and Lanyon ; 7 September to 2 October , ‘ John Virtue ’ , in collaboration with the Lisson Gallery ; 5 October to 6 November , ‘ Ben Nicholson centenary exhibition ’ , timed to coincide with the Tate exhibition ; 9 November to 4 December ‘ Graham Sutherland ’ , the gallery 's first showing of work by the artist ; 7 December to 30 January , ‘ Maurice Cockrill ’ . |
| 10 | If you still have a week before you leave , Eurocheques might be best for the Continent . |
| 11 | The fact that she actually arrived a week after the Jubilee is a trifling historical detail unlikely to mar the magnificence of the concept . |
| 12 | They only had a week . |
| 13 | They now have a week off to review things and figure out what to do after Wednesday night debacle . |
| 14 | And he did — but it only lasted a week ! |
| 15 | Nigel Bunn says it 's hard because youhave to carry all your own stuff … he usually needs a week to recover |
| 16 | He never missed a week . |
| 17 | So seriously , too , did I take myself in it , that from the time I was sixteen I found myself hardly letting a week pass without writing one or two descriptions — of a man , or a place , or a walk — in a manner largely founded on Jefferies ' Amateur Poacher , Kingsley 's Prose Idylls , and Mr. Francis A. Knight 's weekly contributions to the Daily News , but doubtless with tones supplied also by Shelley and Keats , and later on by Ruskin , De Quincey , Pater , and Sir Thomas Browne … |