Example sentences of "weeks [adv] she [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 2 | ‘ A few weeks later she came to the church with her mother . |
| 3 | ‘ A few weeks later she came to the church with her mother . |
| 4 | Six weeks later she married Charley Hoskins one Sunday morning . |
| 5 | And then three weeks later she married the boss . |
| 6 | A few weeks later she fell ill with the ovarian cyst , but the picture was now Lycopodium . |
| 7 | His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible . |
| 8 | I gave one dose of Syphilinum 200 and 4 weeks later she had fear of cancer , stomach discomfort and a peculiar symptom of food going up to the back of the nose on swallowing . |
| 9 | Three weeks later she had . |
| 10 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 11 | It 's like my mum , she paid to get them developed right and about two weeks later she goes in that 's how much it costs for a week . |
| 12 | But some few weeks later she happened to bring home from the library a volume of Marx 's early writings . |
| 13 | Six weeks later she reported back that she had been very well on holiday with no travel-sickness or stomach problems but since returning home the digestive symptoms had gradually increased in intensity . |
| 14 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 15 | I honestly do n't know , when I spoke to her this morning she said she has n't erm for a , for a few weeks now she has n't placed anybody |
| 16 | couple of weeks back she got a throat infection , I just wondered whether it had come back . |
| 17 | She knew it so clearly that three weeks ago she had made an appointment to take her breast lump to a doctor . |
| 18 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 19 | A few weeks ago she had decided that — in future — her career would provide sufficient fulfilment . |
| 20 | Two weeks ago she had finished her internship at St Paul 's Hospital in Vancouver . |
| 21 | Two weeks ago she had never heard of Penry Meredith Vaughan . |
| 22 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , cos er Lorraine told me last , what Lorraine works every two weeks , what she 's on this weekend , so erm , so it 's two weeks ago she told |
| 24 | Just a few weeks ago she fell on a toy brick and sprained her foot badly ! |
| 25 | Three weeks ago she flew back to Britain with her children , three year old Sean , and one year old Ashley . |
| 26 | " I have n't seen her for several weeks then she came in about two hours ago — sort of staggered into the kitchen , and she was carrying the kitten in her mouth . |
| 27 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 28 | Her voice was shaking as she told me that on returning from the cinema a couple of weeks earlier she had been grabbed from behind , dragged into an alley and viciously raped at knifepoint . |
| 29 | A few weeks earlier she had taken maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plugs factory in Upton . |
| 30 | As short a time as a few weeks previously she had been , when not bored , repelled by his music . |