Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [noun] ago [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 2 | Secondly , why is there imprisonment in England and Wales when the Government abolished it four years ago in Scotland ? |
| 3 | There are two main methods of budding — that which may be regarded as the traditional way , and another ‘ new ’ method that is more often used for other shrubs and trees — although we were using it 40 years ago on both bush and standard roses . |
| 4 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 5 | The ancient Chinese invented it 2,000 years ago as a way to pass instructions down the line and information up to the top . |
| 6 | The Prince missed it two years ago with the same back trouble . |
| 7 | Miss Ross said her sister had kept a personal protection gun at home previously but had returned it some time ago to the Maze for safekeeping . |