Example sentences of "[pers pn] for week " in BNC.
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| 1 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 2 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 3 | But that first meeting , that mysterious … how shall I say , message from her light , from her light to my shadow , haunted me for weeks . |
| 4 | ‘ The thing is , it 's been building up inside me for weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |
| 6 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 7 | In the subsequent show report , I proclaimed that it was love at first sight and when I heard that a new model was in the offing which would , the company told me , prove to be their most eye-catching to date , I pestered them for weeks until they sent me one for review . |
| 8 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 9 | We 've been watching them for weeks . ’ |
| 10 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 11 | I I mean poor Wynn I have n't , have n't been in touch with them for weeks and months and the longer you leave it the worse you feel about it , you know ? |
| 12 | Well last night I thought oh I 'd better cut her toenails cos I had n't done them for weeks like . |
| 13 | I just think it 's wrong because every day a tiny bit the ground loo looks much much better than if I do n't give them for weeks an they do , well . |
| 14 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 15 | There 's times I do n't see you for weeks on end . ’ |
| 16 | To go through all of that , to keep my hands off you for weeks , and then be refused on the wedding night ! ’ |
| 17 | Oh , have n't seen you for weeks and you 've got nowt |
| 18 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 19 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 20 | I 've been trying to write about him for weeks . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So he gets everything on a plate and you get nothing but insults and disturbance , and upset because you ca n't help thinking about him for weeks afterwards . |
| 22 | The short , nine-day voyage was accompanied by beautiful weather , and brought with it one of Gould 's most elusive and sought-after species of petrel , one that had tantalised him for weeks aboard the Parsee , although the occasion was , as Gould liked to emphasise , as much a result of his own ingenuity as it was of chance or convenience : |
| 23 | I have n't seen her for week and half now . |
| 24 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 25 | Last night , she had taken one of the wolfdogs that had been following her for weeks . |
| 26 | I feel guilty about having engaged her for weeks in close and auto-erotic questioning . |
| 27 | It 's funny how you can spend every minute of every day with someone , and then never see her for weeks on end , just because you 'd stopped even thinking about her . |
| 28 | The Boar 's Head 's never seen her for weeks . |
| 29 | Celia promised to let me know , but I have n't seen her for weeks . ’ |
| 30 | she ca n't write now , I have n't written to her for weeks |