Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a [noun sg] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added , however , that a handful of men did commence training a year ago for the new station and have moved home . |
| 2 | It looks as though it stopped work a decade ago . |
| 3 | ‘ That afternoon the matron of Abigail 's hospital rang from Bristol to tell us her lungs had finally got the better of her heart and she 'd died an hour ago . |
| 4 | Explaining why he now supports the Grand Slam Cup , after refusing to compete a year ago , he said ‘ I have my word to the ATP that I would do everything I signed to do in my contract with them . |
| 5 | The point that I was seeking to make a moment ago — I reiterate it now — is that I think that it is to the advantage of everyone in Northern Ireland for the politicians of Northern Ireland , of all shades of opinion , to come together , to talk and to express their mutual wish for peace in Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | ‘ Yous all too late fer lunch , dat finished gone an hour ago , ’ she informed them in no uncertain terms . |
| 7 | Would you have thought a year ago that you would be spending your next name-day in Paris ? |
| 8 | He started running a while ago . ’ |
| 9 | playing with it and stuff like , I think I should have gone a while ago , actually , |
| 10 | Jenny had put Ted quite out of her mind and was threshing over problems and questions she would not have believed could have existed a week ago . |
| 11 | Medusa was the code name of a back-up disk suite product brought to market a year ago . |
| 12 | Maureen Gilbert 46 , of Hallam Close , Filey , went missing a year ago just half an hour after her husband Derek , a self employed plasterer , left for work . |
| 13 | Afterwards Leconte , who only resumed training a week ago after injuring himself in the Paris Open , admitted he was surprised at the way Ferreira had fallen to pieces . |
| 14 | The West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit found recently that , while part-time work was increasing in their area , women were actually being paid a lower percentage of local full-time wages than they had received a decade ago . |
| 15 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 16 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |
| 17 | They walked back towards the houses , the clownish little man and the thin child — watching him , Nick thought he looked thinner than he had done a month ago . |
| 18 | He was an incredibly fit old man , whose wife had died a year ago . |
| 19 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 20 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 21 | It climbed vertically above the field , retracing its earlier journey , until it seemed to hang suspended at the precise point where it had rested a moment ago . |
| 22 | ‘ My brother , Mark , is on one song which we had cut a while ago and it wound up going on the record because it was such a good demo . ’ |
| 23 | The same thing had happened a year ago when Peter Senior slipped past him . |
| 24 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 25 | She lowered her gaze to the plate of food she had ordered a while ago . |
| 26 | You got paid a month ago . |
| 27 | ‘ She got married a week ago and went off with her husband . ’ |