Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 3 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 4 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 5 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 6 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 7 | He says you 're expecting him , that you were informed he would be coming a few months ago . |
| 8 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 9 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 10 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 11 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 12 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 13 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 14 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |
| 15 | The prices crash has resulted in used hot hatchbacks selling for up to £1,000 less than they were fetching a few months ago , according to Mr Tom Atkins , general manager of BRS Car Auctions , Stoke . |
| 16 | Er , Jim , Birmingham , West er , Midlands er , supporting er , the sectionalization of the union because erm , we were told a few months ago it was passed for nineteen ninety one . |
| 17 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 18 | Sites at Ballyhannon have caused the greatest furore , with five acres being sold a few weeks ago for £250,000 . |
| 19 | ‘ In case you 've forgotten what we were doing a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 20 | Erm , and to look at the stories which are of a different time but are still relevant to our time and place , they have a , have a message for us , even though they were set a hundred years ago , they 've still got something to say us , so I think that 's an area we need to explore . |
| 21 | In the Coca Cola Cup third round replay as we were hearing a short while ago from , third division Shrewsbury Town one , Blackburn Rovers one , for Rovers after six , the equalizer on twenty . |
| 22 | It may be that there is now enough information available to answer questions that were asked a long time ago but never answered . |
| 23 | erm if people are restored to confidence , feel that they are able to travel , that of course reduces the number of people who are going to stay in this country and have their holidays here , and Stan , if I can come back to you , I mean we it is almost arguing against the point that you were making a few moments ago that , you know , you want people to stay in this country . |
| 24 | Some others were fitted a few months ago but they have n't been wired up to the Economy meter and we dare n't use them because we would n't be able to afford the bills . ’ |
| 25 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 26 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 27 | After all , he 's only been experiencing the outside world since his vaccination course was completed a few weeks ago . |
| 28 | Iain Christie , chairman of the processing group , said : ‘ This promotion was arranged a long time ago , before this import situation surfaced . |
| 29 | I might enjoy sampling what I was touching a few minutes ago . ’ |
| 30 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |