Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] a week " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 2 | When he called off his fast a week later , a pro-government newspaper headlined its story ‘ Maquio ends his diet ’ . |
| 3 | The woman in the shop 's pretty friendly and she tells me what to do with the plants — you know , water them once a week , or keep them out of draughts and that . |
| 4 | I know a guy who bowls at the Bromley Bowling Club in exactly and he told me that they have professional green keepers who look after lots of different greens and they come into them once a week or whatever . |
| 5 | We only have them once a week |
| 6 | ‘ You were in good health when I saw you only a week ago today . ’ |
| 7 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
| 8 | I 'll phone you once a week and you can tell me how you 're getting on . ’ |
| 9 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 10 | Or , imagine that the lights go out as Harry has just begun saying : ( 2 ) Listen , I 'm not disagreeing with you but with you , and not about this but about this Or , Suppose we find a bottle in the sea , and inside it a message which reads : ( 3 ) Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big We do not know who to meet , where or when to meet him or her , or how big a stick to bring . |
| 11 | For example , in Levinson 's ( 1983 ) well-known deictic utterance , Meet me here a week from now with a stick about this big , there are certain words , such as me , here , now and this , which have part of their meaning which is context-sensitive . |
| 12 | When she became too ill and breathless to come to the surgery , I visited her once a week . |
| 13 | ‘ I call round and see her once a week to make sure she 's got everything she needs . |
| 14 | Well I think Lee , he , he just realise , I mean I mean he only sees her once a week any way , does n't he ? but you know , she is , she is a lovely girl |
| 15 | The FO telephoned him once a week , to keep in touch . |
| 16 | But he said nothing of this , merely noted down her address , sighed a little at it , and made his latest recruit promise to visit him once a week with her piece . |
| 17 | ‘ It came to the stage when I was married to Michael but seeing him once a week , ’ said Gabrielle . |
| 18 | His wife April just scrapes enough money together to make the hundred and fifty mile round trip to see him twice a week |
| 19 | I can only afford to go to see him twice a week . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been visiting her twice a week … |
| 21 | At the other end of the scale , Plymouth Laira gained a small fleet of Class 37s which rarely ventured away from the West Country china clay empire , although a new trainload working was introduced in 1989 which would take them twice a week up to Irvine in South West Scotland . |
| 22 | I saw him use it only a week ago . ’ |
| 23 | He did and they all edited it together a week later . |
| 24 | The perfect answer to all the music press critics : the massed armies of the anti-Morrissey brigade and yours truly ( who bought the record only to give it away a week later after feeling let down ) , came by way of the fans . |
| 25 | I only do mine once a week , because I live on me own . |
| 26 | ‘ Good job you do , ’ she went on , ‘ because I cook it once a week to give the tins a good clean out . ’ |
| 27 | Belonged to an old lady who only used it once a week for shopping . ’ ’ |
| 28 | I said in my teapot there is a little , and he told you to use white tide and you put a little bit of tide in it once a week . |
| 29 | ‘ Yeah , but you can only use it once a week and you have to get permission . |
| 30 | He was local to the area , I think it was one of these bakers that used to used to do it but er he probably only used to do it once a week sell it once a week I think of all the people that was on course we got the best , we got the best place and er and it came out that the erm tourist information booklet . |