Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] few week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 2 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 3 | But after a few weeks my girlfriend 's dad got a phone call from the old couple we 'd painted the house for , they wanted to get in the coal shed and could n't because I 'd painted over the lock . |
| 4 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 5 | But after a few weeks , she said , ‘ You need to find a college , Carol . |
| 6 | But in a few weeks they were allowed to return because Mossad had threatened to stop giving MI6 any more information about Arab terrorism . |
| 7 | At first , her face burned and she was often defeated in her purpose but within a few weeks she was indistinguishable from the seasoned bargainers . |
| 8 | It was horrid leaving you two girls in Simla , but within a few weeks — at the end of that term — we were able to have you down with us in Poona , and you went to the Wantage Sisters ' school there , and Tim went too . |
| 9 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 10 | He acquiesced in the attempt of Lady Jane Grey [ q.v. ] to seize the throne from Mary , and came under suspicion at the time of the rebellion of Sir Thomas Wyatt [ q.v. ] , but within a few weeks was back at his duties . |
| 11 | Every child knows that a country which ceased to work , I will not say for a year , but for a few weeks , would die . |
| 12 | There 's somebody came in today , a guy came in today who used to work with us who usually comes in occasionally and I would see him , but for a few weeks now , so he noticed it . |