Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] [adj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was obvious from the moment she came into the house that Dawn , as I 'd immediately christened her ( after all , I 'd had three weeks to dream up the name ) , was a real character . |
| 2 | I had to do ten weeks glass cleaning . |
| 3 | I 've done three weeks . |
| 4 | I 've had four weeks to realize what a stupid bastard I 've been , ’ Sam said . |
| 5 | I 've had three weeks of being ordered about , laughed at , sneered at , talked over the head of , ignored . |
| 6 | I 've spent six weeks with my axe to the grindstone , rebuilding the car and these thieving toe-rags have come along and taken it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got two weeks ’ grace — at the moment , ’ she told Mitch quietly . |
| 8 | I 've got two weeks at christmas , I 've got a week 's two weeks in the summer I 've got an extra week and christmas no hold it , christmas so |
| 9 | I 've got six weeks . |
| 10 | I said , I 've got four weeks . |
| 11 | I said , I 've , I 've got four weeks ' holiday before . |
| 12 | holiday , cos I 've got four weeks holiday to come now , this year and that 's not , that 's not |
| 13 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 14 | I 've got Kieran back for next week two weeks and then it 's half way through March and first week in April I have n't got him , I 've got three weeks |
| 15 | Well I 'm , I 'm the same , I was talking to Rob the other day and er , I forget how I mentioned it , but I said something about , oh I think it 's because I was saying why do n't you come up like this week because he 's off this week , and er , he was making some excuse or other , oh I 've got three weeks off in the summer , oh I 'd sooner come up when I 've got this longest spell off , you know , and I want to get this chimney done and blah , blah |
| 16 | I was gon na bring some back and I thought no I wo n't cos I 'll only end up eating it all this week and I 've got three weeks left to get really in shape for Christmas , you know , before I slob out and eat |
| 17 | According to them I have had four weeks off in ten years . |
| 18 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 19 | By this time , however , she 'd had three weeks in which to move from bitter , aching despair , to bitter , aching fury . |
| 20 | You 've got two weeks left have n't you ? |
| 21 | When we started here it looked er but we 'll only get actually six weeks , said you 've got six weeks work , that 's all . |
| 22 | Because you 've got three weeks to do a fucking musical . |
| 23 | JANE O'NEILL WITNESSED A SERIOUS ACCIDENT , AND WAS SO SHOCKED THAT SHE HAD TO TAKE SEVERAL WEEKS OFF WORK . |
| 24 | At a cemetery in Carpentras in south-eastern France on May 10 , the body of a Jewish man who had died two weeks previously was disinterred and , according to first reports which were later contradicted , impaled ; the grave of a woman was also disturbed , and more than 30 others were damaged . |
| 25 | Imagine : I was a bit pissed for a start , the object of my complete love was nesting in my rear-view mirror , the corpulent groom — my best friend — who had spent three weeks pleasuring her in the Hellenic sunshine was sitting beside me with a clank of duty-free between his calves , I 'd lost my job , and the other drivers on the road were all tuning up for Formula One . |
| 26 | Mr Shara said Damascus put proposals to Mr Christopher on resolving the fate of the deportees , who have spent nine weeks in a makeshift camp between Israeli and Lebanese lines , so that peace talks can be resumed as soon as possible . |
| 27 | " The rules are that if you leave your employment voluntarily you have to wait six weeks before you can claim Unemployment Benefit . |
| 28 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
| 29 | so you have to give four weeks . |
| 30 | There is an old Sioux saying : ‘ You can not understand a man until you have walked two weeks in his moccasins . ’ |