Example sentences of "[verb] a long [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 32 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 33 | During an , a very intensive training and organization period in the United States during the first half of nineteen forty three , and that does sound a long time ago , er we er the Three-Ninetieth Bomb Group , under the able direction of Colonel , er arrived at Parham , right here , in July nineteen forty three . |
| 34 | ‘ The coach arrived a long time ago ! |
| 35 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 36 | The estate was sold a long time ago to the Dukes of Devonshire and was tenanted at one time by the Reverend Thomas Fosbroke , the celebrated antiquary . |
| 37 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 38 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 39 | I realized a long time ago why you were so set on Charlie and me marrying , and I 'm very fond of him , and I 'd like to go on living at Lady Mead for the rest of my life . |
| 40 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 41 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 42 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 43 | A lot of people seem to refer to Jesus as a good man who lived a long time ago ; a man who taught about God and who became ‘ Son of God ’ by his resurrection . |
| 44 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 45 | The rest of us quit a long time ago . |
| 46 | ‘ I 've told yer plenty of times , me an' Tommy finished a long time ago . |
| 47 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 48 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 49 | The story of Eddie Aikau began a long time ago : |
| 50 | Our drift out of nationhood — a collective , willed political identity — into a reality we could not shape nor even talk about began a long time ago . |
| 51 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
| 52 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
| 53 | Cardinal Heenan warned a long time ago that by the year 2,000 there would be no Catholic Church in our country if something was not done to rectify things . |
| 54 | ‘ When I step back from it all , I see tennis was invented a long time ago . |
| 55 | It all seems a long time ago . |
| 56 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |
| 57 | But for Ben Hunt ; his passion for motorbikes started a long time ago . |
| 58 | THE head went a long time ago , then it was the legs — but on Thursday night it was Martina Navratilova 's heart that had gone from her game . |
| 59 | Liz died a long while ago . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ She died a long time ago . |