Example sentences of "a week [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A week ago a man on the run had come into her house , he had been unkempt , his hair curling thickly about his face , he had not been as well groomed as the man standing before her now , but the breadth of shoulder was the same and something about the dark eyes staring into hers touched a chord . |
2 | Where a week ago a man could stand up to his full height behind them without being seen , now he had to stoop ; tomorrow , perhaps , he would have to get down on his hands and knees . |
3 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
4 | A week ago the garrison there made a sally against us and surrounded and took a company of our men . ’ |
5 | A week later a mob set fire to a town hall in Chauri Chaura in the United Provinces , killing 22 policemen . |
6 | Mr Globe said that a week later a woman customer was seized in a National Westminster Bank in West Derby Road , by White who was armed with a gun . |
7 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
8 | A week later the order was extended to women and their children . |
9 | A week later the Senate created the Landesarbeitsamt — a kind of labour exchange , but one which refused to cater for the Polish unemployed of Danzig . |
10 | At the short uncomplicated inquest on Perkin a week later the coroner found unhesitatingly for ‘ Accident ’ and expressed sympathy with the family . |
11 | None it was , even when less than a week later the enemy came to ‘ finish us off ’ we thought . |
12 | A week later the bogwood was ready for use . |
13 | Her condition improved but a week later the infection returned and she died . |
14 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
15 | The reappearance of one of these tureens after so many years was exciting enough , but only a week later the mail produced a murky Polaroid snapshot of another tureen in South america and we were able to offer the two , reunited on the auction block after about 159 years . |
16 | By the end of February 1950 the ‘ threat of communist aggression against Indo-China ’ had become ‘ only one phase of anticipated communist plans to seize all of South-East Asia ’ and a week later the Department of Defense was told by Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk that Southeast Asia was in grave danger of communist domination : now identified ‘ as a consequence of aggression from communist China ’ as well as ‘ internal subversive activities ’ . |
17 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
18 | Barely a week later an invitation had been made to him . |
19 | Boots says a supply of alkaline batteries for a personal stereo used for four hours a day , five days a week over a year will cost about £90 , while rechargeable batteries and a charger cost from £18 to £27 ( from selected branches of Boots ) . |
20 | For a week now the person — or thing — in that study has been crying night and day for some special chemical powders . |