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Example sentences for "week before"

  • It was a week before I felt safe and concluded that the sergeant had not reported me.

  • Only a week before one of the teamsters was kicked by a mule and died on the same day.

  • I was able to be up about a week before we got to Camp Gardner, and was convalescent, but still weak.

  • Matters therefore were left standing much as they were when he passed in a week before.

  • A week before, on the 13th of May, the same officer had written: "Where are you all this time?

  • He looked around a week before he came back and rented it.

  • Yes; I was there a week before I went to the hospital and I was in the hospital a week or better, and then I come home and I didn't do much but lay around--I had an awful concussion.

  • Well, this was just previous to the time that Oswald and his wife came to my house, so I would say it was just a few days or a week before that.

  • When he was there the first time--it would have been, because it was close to a week before he came back.

  • Pity replaced in my heart the tenderness I had felt for her a week before.

  • She took the place in my heart where Esther had reigned a week before, but I freely confess that Esther yielded only because she was away.

  • The keeper, seeing how sincerely I felt for his misery, tells me that this great misfortune befell them only a week before my arrival.

  • The flowers had been ordered a week before at the establishment of Marie von Leuthen, the first manufacturer of them in the city, and the countess was now awaiting the return of the servant she had sent after them.

  • The moonlight that had played so beautifully, on the rippling waters of the Elbe, a week before, was wanting on this night.

  • Theophilus stood on the river bank at the same place where he had knelt and prayed a week before.

  • A live wire named Garrison, who owned the state rights for selling the World's Great Classics of Prose and Poetry on subscriptions, had landed here about a week before.

  • In fact, he had already give up a week before we finally heared about it.

  • Morgan had arrived less than a week before, having been sent on by the syndicate which owned a chain of papers, the News-Ledger included, to serve under the new managing editor.

  • It must have been a week before I learnt casually that he had obtained employment there as secretary to a small company owning the Lord Nelson and the Hand-in-hand privateers.

  • The old woman kept up a running fight for a week before appealing to Obed, and this delay cost her everything.

  • Selina Johns wasn't but just husband-high; turned sixteen and her hair only put up a week before, she having begged her mother's leave to twist it in plaits for the Christmas courants.

  • For that matter, Percy had confided to John Willie only a week before that he "liked their Minetta," and so was in no position to jeer at the softer relations.

  • He had worried a lot about the canary (June said), and, a week before, had been to Porth Neigr to see it.

  • Only a week before he had left an evening party at the "Imperial" to find the sun already burning a hole in the edge of Mynedd Mawr.

  • Young Fortune Hunter" one weird and murky night the week before.

  • We had laid in all the necessaries at least a week before, and then I set to work to stone raisins for the first, and I trust, the last time in my life.

  • It was over a week before he reached the station, so far had he wandered out of the track, and as he rode up to the house a stable boy lounged up to him.

  • It was a week before Monsieur La Mothe and I arrived?

  • Guy de Molembrais was alive a week before we left Valmy.

  • A week before he was expected in England, Amy Loring called in Berkeley Square to say that Jim was "missing.

  • Barbara's mind went back to her dinner of a week before and to Amy's chance reference to a new clairvoyant.

  • Fruit ripens early, three weeks or more before Concord and about a week before Hartford, ships well but does not keep well, as its season is very short.

  • Not at all," he answered, returning to his table, cutting open the envelope, and giving a rapid glance at its contents to assure himself that it was the same document he had sent to the German capital a week before.

  • A week before I fled from you I received it by post anonymously," she replied.

  • A week before I left for South Africa I dined there, and she then told me that she intended to remain in England throughout the year.

  • By your own telling, you never earned so much as four sovereigns a week before.

  • It was nearly a week before he could again find his way out, and then he was in a sadly debilitated state, from the effects of a fever brought on by over-exertion.

  • It happened that the Bishop of the Diocese came to visit Y--a week before Mr. Carroll intended taking his departure with his motherless children, for his old home, where a church had been offered him in connexion with a school.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after time; autumn leaves; circle around; coal fire; could possibly; envoy extraordinary and minister; general characters; giving spirit; great concern; great content; immediately afterwards; library school; little friend; mother goddess; physical basis; present participle; she broke; silver coinage; week after; week afterwards; week ago; week before; week days; week later; weekly newspaper; weekly paper