Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 2 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 3 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 4 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 5 | , ah no , but you , but you were n't aware of that because you were on the floor , as I was saying five minutes ago . |
| 6 | Er , I 've been robbed and swindled , er I was burgled two months ago , my house was wrecked all my jewellery every thing taken simply because I had left my windows open slightly , now I 've got to sleep at night with all my windows closed and I do n't get a good nights sleep apart from feeling insecure any way and er the swindle er I trusted people and now I ca n't trust any body and that leaves you feeling very insecure . |
| 7 | The wideband cable systems which were trumpeted some years ago could well carry high quality sound as well as umpteen television channels but their development has run into serious economic problems . |
| 8 | ASHANTI ARE a Belfast based three piece which were formed eight years ago by guitarist Steven Boyd — the last remaining original member of the band . |
| 9 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ Now , before our next programme — which was recorded several years ago by the Central Office of Information — we go over to Bill Giles in the London Weather Centre for the twenty-four hour forecast . ’ |
| 11 | The liberals believe they are under-represented in the Congress , which was elected two years ago under the old Soviet system . |
| 12 | Due to be finished at the end of this month , the project will add an extra 326 acute beds to the 240 long-stay and acute beds in the hospital 's first phase which was completed several years ago . |
| 13 | Hound Tor is a deserted settlement in Manaton parish , high on the east side of Dartmoor , which was excavated some years ago and has been left open so that visitors can see it . |
| 14 | Belfast is the only area who run a first year league which was formed several seasons ago and this year 15 teams have entered with the finals before Easter . |
| 15 | This was followed by White Shops , next to the Duchess of Kent 's Military Hospital , where there were also bus stops and two schools but no crossing patrol , which was withdrawn several years ago . |
| 16 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 17 | David McNeill , 59 , senior depute education director , will receive a lump sum of at least £74,000 and an annual pension of more than £24,000 in the deal , which was arranged some months ago . |
| 18 | This possibility , which was suggested some years ago , has recently been reproposed by Hall et al who studied the development of gluten sensitive enteropathy in the Irish setter , an animal model of human coeliac disease . |
| 19 | And there 's a book on engine sheds , and er engine sheds , which was published some years ago I think by publishing company , er which gives track plans to help people . |
| 20 | They were part of a prize-winning herd of more than 80 cattle which was founded 5 years ago . |
| 21 | I am afraid that the Government do not have straight in their head the idea that the public will be determined , through a different Government , to obtain proper redress for their complaints against excessive prices or dirty little ideas such as the 0898 service , which was introduced six years ago after the privatisation of British Telecom . |
| 22 | This creative work of art was produced by May Bolton , a member of the Hems Knitting Club , , to celebrate the 100th meeting of their club which was started nine years ago . |
| 23 | Being part of the Garrowby estate , owned by the Earl of Halifax , it is rather unusual in this day and age as having no privately owned houses or farms , other than the old rectory which was sold several years ago when the parish became part of a joint ministry . |
| 24 | Police in Jersey searching for the bodies of Nicholas and Elizabeth who were killed six years ago have found what appear to be human remains . |
| 25 | But do you really expect me to remember babies who were born twenty years ago ? ’ |
| 26 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 27 | Two people who were sacked eight years ago from the Government Communications Headquarters for refusing to leave their trade union , are continuing their campaign to get union rights reinstated . |
| 28 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 29 | She was born nine months ago after he was interned . |
| 30 | She was diagnosed five years ago , about the time David Markham went out of her life . ’ |