Example sentences of "[pers pn] for [art] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't talk to me for a week after that . |
| 2 | ‘ What is there to stop your visiting me for a week ? |
| 3 | My sister looked after me for a week . |
| 4 | ‘ Try me for a week , ’ Alina said . |
| 5 | It 's only lent to me for a week |
| 6 | well I said I would n't mind spending a week at aunty Mary 's me for a week |
| 7 | This is her weekly expenditure : rent £21.78 electricity ( plus arrears ) £12.50 gas £1.00 club £6.00 sheet man £1.00 boots club £1.00 £43.28 This left about £17 to feed the four of them for a week . |
| 8 | Put the containers in a warm place and leave them for a week . |
| 9 | I 'd like , if I may , to report your provisional findings , and to ask him to delay action on them for a week . |
| 10 | You wo n't remember them after if you do n't look at them for a week but when you come to look at them the night before you 'll be surprised what you do know . |
| 11 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 12 | Well I think , I do n't think there 'll be enough for you for a week . |
| 13 | Similarly you do make the attempt and gradually refine the questions to a point where you for a week or more . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 15 | There you are young Walter , and that 'll keep you for a week . |
| 16 | So after today , I shall not be cleaning you for a week . ’ |
| 17 | Did they take you for a week and show you |
| 18 | I 've told the teeniest weeniest white lie and said that I will only be staying with you for a week or so . " |
| 19 | A regular beauty treatment , relaxation therapy , yoga class , or even a quick visit to a health farm can be all it takes to repair the week 's damage to body and soul , and prepare you for the week ahead . |
| 20 | They kept in touch and then , last March , Jakki took up Jim 's invitation to visit him for a week 's holiday . |
| 21 | Philip came up to keep an eye on him for a week or so . |
| 22 | Jake took him off me , kept him for a week , then brought him back , right as rain . |
| 23 | " When I go on holiday Con always takes him for a week or two and he has never mentioned any … anything unusual … in that way . " |
| 24 | I was friends with him for a week and he was very eloquent . |
| 25 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 26 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 27 | ‘ Paine is right … the French are right … long live the French ! … use their heads instead of pigs ’ bladders … put her in the Marshalsea and do n't feed her for a week … see her prettiness then … ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Nobody 's seen her for a week , and she 's not taken any of her stuff . ’ |
| 29 | There were enough provisions here to feed her for a week — and in far more luxury than she would have dreamt of buying for herself . |
| 30 | And we had to laugh , he said , well can you be ill a bit longer because he , er , he cooked her something to eat and he feeds her and so when I rang up I never got her on th , I never spoke to her for a week ! |