Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ago [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From about 3900 Ma ago to about 3300 Ma ago it is clear from Figure 6.9 that the Moon was subjected to its last heavy bombardment . |
| 2 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 3 | ‘ Eight months ago it happened ! ’ said Gabriel . |
| 4 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody believes it was my idea , ’ he sighs , ‘ But about eight months ago I explained that I could n't carry on working those hours . |
| 6 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 7 | Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy 's calf muscle . |
| 8 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 9 | Now she was lost , every cell , every fibre of her body alive with the memory of his possession , aching to re-experience what only a few hours , a few minutes ago she 'd sworn to deny them both . |
| 10 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 11 | The argument about the contingency fund erm I find that amazing that er y'know , up until a few hours ago you had to have two hundred thousand pounds . |
| 12 | A few hours ago he had not known that she existed , now he was a licensed voyeur , authorized to meddle in her most intimate concerns . |
| 13 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 14 | ‘ A FEW hours ago I discharged my last duty as the heir to the throne and now that I will be succeeded by my son , Prince William , my first words must be to declare my allegiance to him . |
| 15 | ‘ A few hours ago I burned the remains of my own first born , ’ Tallis said . |
| 16 | When my ‘ ex ’ was sacked from his job some months ago they stopped altogether — though he has just spent two weeks in Spain with his girl-friend and new family . |
| 17 | SOME months ago I saw a television documentary on hostels for young homeless people in London . |
| 18 | Some months ago I wrote that England should put a sevens specialist like Les Cusworth in charge of their campaign . |
| 19 | Some months ago I suggested that this could be done in a new version of Question Time . |
| 20 | ‘ Some months ago I was convicted of embezzling a considerable amount of money from the company I share with my brother . |
| 21 | A few months ago they were a rag-bag of local pressure groups . |
| 22 | But is n't it funny how people who are now well and truly ‘ progged up ’ are willing to accept this sort of thing which a few months ago they 'd have left well alone ? |
| 23 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
| 24 | A few months ago we mentioned that a computerised welfare benefits package was available from a medical school research and development team in London . |
| 25 | A few months ago we looked at the Fender Hot Rod Strat , featuring a DiMarzio humbucker at the bridge : an off-the-peg version of one of the most common custom options requested of guitar repairmen today . |
| 26 | In the years since , we 've kept a Northern Ireland file , and a few months ago we had collected enough encouraging evidence to make us think that a concerted effort would enable us to name the man most consistently pointed at as being in control of the IRA , Martin McGuinness . |
| 27 | Does he recall that just a few months ago he dismissed devolution as a stale hangover from the 1960s in which there was no public interest ? |
| 28 | A few months ago he died , and his wife sold the house and went to live with her sister . |
| 29 | A FEW MONTHS AGO I GAVE MY IMPRESSIONS of the sort of thing a typical record critic tends to look for in putting together a review . |
| 30 | Dear Doctor I own a Tokai TST-50 Strat copy and up until a few months ago I could n't fault its sound or setup . |