Example sentences of "few [noun] ago [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a few minutes ago I said I was dog-tired and hungry . |
| 2 | Only a few minutes ago I felt a slight twitch in the boy 's calf muscle . |
| 3 | okay Right you mentioned it a few minutes ago you suggested that this thing was formed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ A few hours ago I burned the remains of my own first born , ’ Tallis said . |
| 11 | A few months ago they were a rag-bag of local pressure groups . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | A few months ago they had a row , and Steve stormed off and went nightclubbing in London for the weekend . |
| 14 | A few months ago we mentioned that a computerised welfare benefits package was available from a medical school research and development team in London . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | A few months ago he died , and his wife sold the house and went to live with her sister . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A few months ago I bought a secondhand Singer 2310 machine with an electric motor . |
| 22 | A few months ago I asked you to write to the magazine with your queries about Silver machines , and suggestions for the subjects you 'd like me to write about . |
| 23 | A few months ago I visited the Mecca of soccer fanzines — SportsPages in Charing Cross Road , London . |
| 24 | A few months ago I had the privilege of visiting the brand new Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island in New York City . |
| 25 | Yeah I mean a few months ago I had absolutely no idea at all what |
| 26 | I sound like Piers , she thought suddenly , when a few months ago I would have giggled a bit at a remark like that . |
| 27 | When Liverpool beat them 7-1 in a pre-season friendly a few months ago I think a few people thought the Prenton bubble had burst . |
| 28 | ‘ A few months ago she was in her full health and it was you we were worried about , ’ Michael cried . |
| 29 | He added : ‘ A few months ago she went berserk . |
| 30 | ‘ You cow , ’ cried Sam , without malice : only a few months ago she would have pressed the plum into her friend 's hair , but now she threw it on to the pavement where it lay easily among the cabbage stalks and traces of vomit . |