Example sentences of "[adv] for weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was as white as a ghost , and her eyes were shadowed as if she had n't slept properly for weeks . |
| 2 | ‘ I had n't talked to her properly for weeks . |
| 3 | Andrew Lloyd Webber has not slept properly for weeks . |
| 4 | That is made worse by the fact that the network of London TECs has , in some cases , been in existence literally only for weeks . |
| 5 | I say unfortunate laird , but of course it would have been the unfortunate estate workers who would have hauled the pick-axes up the hill and toiled away for weeks , just so that somebody with a crown could sit on a pony that did n't stumble on his way up a mountain to shoot something . |
| 6 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 7 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 8 | He was away for weeks at a time and would return laden with gigots of Algerian lamb , jars of oil , sacks of pulses ; Madame ran the propriété , which was large , and not labour-intensive ( words that entered Frederica 's vocabulary ca. 1960 ) . |
| 9 | I actually became interested , not so much in the women locally but my o , my own grandmother Greta , was a herring gutter from Wick I never knew her , I have one photograph of her taken with her two children , and when my children were small I used to look at this and think , how did she get away for weeks to work and follow the boats |
| 10 | ‘ The situation could continue thus for weeks . |
| 11 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 12 | Probably would n't be home for weeks anyway . |
| 13 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 14 | In 1897 , the social investigator E. F. Hogg reported the case of a furpuller who had not left home for weeks . |
| 15 | He had lived quietly and unobtrusively for weeks behind Marble Arch , one of over a million foreigners in the British capital . |
| 16 | Waxing , which is wholesale plucking essentially , removes hair from the roots and the results last longer — often for weeks . |
| 17 | It 's baffling why some householders allow skips to languish on the road outside their homes , often for weeks and months on end . |
| 18 | Co-ordinator Ann Graham said : ‘ It is a shame when young people look forward to a ride on the horses , often for weeks , to find it rained-off . |
| 19 | ‘ We were besieged here for weeks , and life was very complicated for everyone . |
| 20 | We stay up here for weeks on end , riding our horses , just having fun . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |
| 22 | ‘ We have n't castrated a man here for weeks — and anyway , Tricia 's gone to bed . ’ |
| 23 | It had n't lain loose in the soil for centuries , or even for weeks . |
| 24 | and as soon as the panes been blown out , it was such a force , it was blowing them between two houses , smashing on the road , and in the end , once a few more panes had gone that was it the whole greenhouse , I sat there watching this greenhouse , it just suddenly launched itself off the bit on it , over our fence , it went , there was glass everywhere for weeks afterwards , when I was cutting the lawn , oh dear the |
| 25 | That went on intermittently , sometimes for weeks at a time , for nine years . |
| 26 | Initially for a few days at a time , then for weeks , and eventually whole months . |
| 27 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 28 | He kept it there for weeks , later transferring the number to his Filofax . |
| 29 | One girl had a fight and she was down there for weeks . |
| 30 | Some women were kept down there for weeks , some in the special cells , with strip dress , paper plates , paper pot . |