Example sentences of "[verb] long ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | That being the case how did it happen that a system which worked so ill had not been altered long ago ? |
| 2 | This famous king lived long ago in Macedonia in northern Greece . |
| 3 | As he says to one of their tools : When Buckingham presents his credentials for deceiving the London citizens it is in the same theatrical-Machiavellian terms as Richard : But Buckingham himself is deceived , as we realized long ago in the flurry of insincere praise that Richard heaped upon him : Buckingham should have known that such effusiveness from a hypocrite can only bode ill . |
| 4 | I realized long ago that the only thing he has in common with other men is the prick between his legs . |
| 5 | We 'd have been stopped long ago . |
| 6 | Mrs Marcos agreed long ago to fly her husband 's body direct to Laoag , but she is now hinting at defiance . |
| 7 | ‘ Naga ’ means ‘ wise serpent ’ , the title given long ago to those who had acquired great wisdom . |
| 8 | In John the Baptist s ministry you find the fulfilment of the prophecies made long ago that a messenger would come to prepare the way of the Lord . |
| 9 | Another text with allusions to Jewish ethical norms attributed to Phocylides was recognized long ago to be a Jewish forgery of the Hellenistic age . |
| 10 | Her connection with France was tenuous to say the least — a fragile link broken long ago . |
| 11 | A piece of verse he had heard long ago came drifting back to Carew ; the lament of some long dead , long forgotten Irish poet surveying his ravaged country . |
| 12 | Helen reached in and stirred with distaste ; a brown knitted pixie hat surfaced that her mother used to wear long ago , unravelled now to a skeletal condition . |
| 13 | If the issue of bias in psychological research were as simple as turning the methods and instruments prized by psychology into the service of defeating bias , many battles would have been won long ago . |
| 14 | The younger people had departed long ago for war work or service in the armed forces . |
| 15 | Isambard 's hand on his shoulder brought him to the bench at the end of the room , where a film of stone-dust coated the floor , and several fragments of carvings and half-cut blocks of stone lay pushed together against the wall , as though discarded long ago . |
| 16 | The magical world of Darby O'Gill was shattered long ago when television came into the houses of Carrickfergus . |
| 17 | The bowl of righteousness was shattered long ago , when Tsao Ch'un built his City . |
| 18 | Designed long ago , the defences of Famagusta consisted of towers and wallwalks , battlements and arrow slits , without proper seating for cannon , or for the ventilation that cannon demanded . |
| 19 | The main staircase had collapsed long ago ; only the upper flight remained , hanging precariously in space . |
| 20 | The roof had collapsed long ago , leaving some of its timbers exposed to the elements , but apart from that it seemed reasonably stable . |
| 21 | I mean the Festival box-office staff and the unseen technical staff and — well , in short , the Festival would have collapsed long ago , had it not been for a wonderfully large number of people who join us year after year — just because they love the Festival and want to do their best for it , and work all hours for it . |
| 22 | New black immigration has long ago been stopped , but any black man or woman who wants to bring dependants over , or be visited by relatives from home , is now afraid of what these people will have to suffer . |
| 23 | He says ‘ the demand for the all-round grocery clerk , fruiterer and vegetable dealer , dairyman , butcher , and so forth , has long ago been replaced by a labor configuration in the supermarkets which calls for truck unloaders , shelf stockers , checkout clerks , meat wrappers , and meat cutters ; of these only the last retain any semblance of skill , and none require any general knowledge of retail trade ’ . |
| 24 | ( An annual outing to the seaside has long ago displaced this occasion . ) |
| 25 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 26 | But all that changed long ago and it 's no good yearning for what 's disappeared . |
| 27 | In that instant it was as if some dam erected long ago around his heart had been breached . |
| 28 | Such spectacular animals have obviously attracted much attention , and one might suppose that the problem of how they lived would have been satisfactorily solved long ago . |
| 29 | The white father promised long ago that I could go back to my home , but the white men are big liars . |
| 30 | Opus aims to soldier on with its SparcCard add-in business and says it will have the software and follow-on hardware coming out that it promised long ago . |