Example sentences of "been [verb] a [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 3 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 4 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 5 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 6 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 7 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 8 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 9 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |