Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] a [adj] time ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
| 3 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
| 4 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 5 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ It does n't matter — just someone who lived a long time ago — best forgotten . ’ |
| 8 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 9 | ‘ She died a long time ago . |
| 10 | Then he relaxes into a sorrowful smile , like when you remember someone you loved who died a long time ago . |
| 11 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 12 | Some of them you remember the table we had a long time ago showing the reactivity of different elements , particularly the metals when we were looking at metals . |
| 13 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 14 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 16 | It is a drawing of a girl ( young woman ) , a nude , not like anything else of his I have seen , and I think it must be something he did a long time ago . |
| 17 | He wanted to call her ‘ Mam ’ , the way he had a long time ago , but she said it made her feel middle-aged and dull and ordinary , so he must never say it again , especially when other people were around . |
| 18 | It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The rest of us quit a long time ago . |