Example sentences of "weeks she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She blamed Freddie and me for what went wrong but within two weeks she 'd died herself ; she had never recovered from the birth . ’ |
| 2 | Weeks she 'd been badly , and he would n't hear of spending a penny on a doctor . |
| 3 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 4 | Heaven knew she 'd been the subject of enough prurient curiosity in the few short weeks she 'd been running the club . |
| 5 | But in the final weeks she began to fall , and I organized a home help and district nurse . |
| 6 | However , she never once attempted to nibble at her daily offering of oats in all the eight weeks she spent at the stud . |
| 7 | However , when I had been in Huntingdon a few weeks she persuaded me , against my will , to accompany her to a dance which was being held at Alconbury , one of the American air bases nearest to us . |
| 8 | After just six weeks she returned home and refused to go back . |
| 9 | I advised going on to Lachesis LM2 and after 3 weeks she had a return of flushes . |
| 10 | Over the past few weeks she had come to the conclusion that the person she would most like to share her home was quiet , devoted Jenny . |
| 11 | Within weeks she had sacked Kathy Pitkin , who played teenage bride Fizz and told six others she would not be renewing their contracts . |
| 12 | Within weeks she had overcome her setback and astounded doctors with her good health . |
| 13 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 14 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 15 | In the weeks she had been here , she had managed to create an area of ordered calm which spoke of high efficiency and brisk management . |
| 16 | She had looked deep into his black eyes ; for six weeks she had enjoyed , in the brief times they had spent together , the happiest and most carefree days of her life , surreptitiously stolen , with the help of a willing friend , from her guarded life , the life of a rich heiress . |
| 17 | She was filled with happiness , although during the past six weeks she had suffered from indecision and doubts . |
| 18 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 19 | And then after oh , after a few weeks she said I 'll come in for a cup of tea . |
| 20 | has been up there nattering , it 's been noticed , so Norren come up to me today and she said oh er you do n't have to do upstairs she said , give it a couple of weeks she said and you wo n't have to do it any more |
| 21 | Well I said it 'll soon be Christmas she said yes not quite four weeks she said . |
| 22 | So she said she 'd got some of the scale off but she could n't get u all of it on and she said these last , well three or four weeks she said every time he eats his food he goes meouw and runs away and he ca n't eat ! |
| 23 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 24 | In the last few weeks she became a local radio presenter . |
| 25 | After two weeks she became jaundiced and was referred with the diagnosis of choledocholithiasis . |
| 26 | Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer . |
| 27 | She had another prescription and it was nearly three weeks and she still , now , I mean this is like Five weeks she 's still got like a residual |
| 28 | And she would provide a substitute for the two weeks she reckoned it would take her , an English maid called Phoebe Crabbe with whom she had become friendly . |
| 29 | Over the next 2 weeks she telephoned the therapist two or three times a week complaining of a variety of physical symptoms and demanding to be seen straight away . |
| 30 | In a ghost story she wrote : ‘ Night after night for weeks she tried to make him come … ’ |