Example sentences of "a week [adv] [art] [noun] " 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 | If they 'd told the Blakeys a week ago the Blakeys would have said what the clergyman had said : that Stephen 's father could not have been responsible . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A week ago the garrison there made a sally against us and surrounded and took a company of our men . ’ |
| 6 | A week ago the robbers were captured on film during another raid . |
| 7 | A week later a mob set fire to a town hall in Chauri Chaura in the United Provinces , killing 22 policemen . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 10 | About a week later the eggs hatch leaving behind paler coloured shells which remain glued . |
| 11 | A week later the order was extended to women and their children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But a week later the Texas supreme court greatly complicated her task by unanimously declaring Texas 's new law on school finance , laboriously agreed upon after four special sessions , to be unconstitutional . |
| 14 | But just a week later the St Edwards coach changes his mind . |
| 15 | At the short uncomplicated inquest on Perkin a week later the coroner found unhesitatingly for ‘ Accident ’ and expressed sympathy with the family . |
| 16 | None it was , even when less than a week later the enemy came to ‘ finish us off ’ we thought . |
| 17 | A week later the bogwood was ready for use . |
| 18 | Her condition improved but a week later the infection returned and she died . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Barely a week later an invitation had been made to him . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | For a week now the person — or thing — in that study has been crying night and day for some special chemical powders . |
| 26 | For a week now the volunteers have been sleeping among the undistributed relief supplies on the coach . |