Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that was the point I made a few moments ago . |
| 2 | In a survey on shopping which I made a few years ago one of my student interviewers was questioning an old lady about the grocer 's shop she used . |
| 3 | Yeah I mean a few months ago I had absolutely no idea at all what |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 've had a couple of letters asking me whether I ever managed to give up smoking as I promised a few months ago . |
| 6 | and what we 've got to do is er er as I said to Ed a little while ago , I mentioned a little while ago , we need to gather the other thin section |
| 7 | Apart from the considerations which I mentioned a few moments ago , it would indeed . |
| 8 | Er we have n't used very much of it this year I mean I think er I mentioned a few weeks ago the , the question of trips out perhaps in the spring to do fish and that , we could consider er we do n't want to just go er accumulating money for the sake of it erm , we want to get some benefit out of the money we 've got . |
| 9 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 10 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 11 | erm I remember a few years ago when there was a great panicky shutting down of teachers ' training colleges . |
| 12 | I heard a few weeks ago of the formation of an American group called ‘ Fundamentalists Anonymous ’ . |
| 13 | He seized her hands in his , and mindful of her enthusiastic response to his advances a few weeks ago , took her in her arms and planted a kiss on her cheek . |
| 14 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
| 15 | I refer the hon. and learned Gentleman to the reply that I gave a few moments ago . |
| 16 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave a few moments ago . |
| 17 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave a few moments ago . |
| 18 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave a few moments ago . |
| 19 | I refer the hon. Lady to the reply that I gave a few moments ago . |
| 20 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave a few moments ago . |
| 21 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave a few moments ago . |
| 22 | ‘ I resigned a few weeks ago . ’ |
| 23 | But it is n't easy we have a lot , what complaints we get bearing in mind what I said a short while ago , what complaints we get now are very much biased towards defects in street lighting systems provided currently here and there in Suffolk , so I 'm conscious of this , we are working with the Eastern Electricity Board on an improved maintenance contract whereby certain benefits , and one of them is immediacy of response to repair work will be I hope put forward , very conscious of it indeed so and er we are struggling with what the , the basic cause of it all of course is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 24 | I said a few moments ago that I would not exclude consideration or the need for consideration of the greenbelt purposes served . |
| 25 | I am sure that the Minister will recall that I said a few moments ago that in our view the role of regional government is not delivery of services . |
| 26 | And I remind this council of something I said a few years ago of an incident , incident concerning the Atherstone hunt in my ward where the hounds attacked the dogs of , a couple of dogs of a constituent of mine in his back garden totally uncontrolled , they were running amuck right across land in Ellistown this is nothing the hunt could do nothing the hunt tried to do they were too busy off still dashing ahead chasing the fox or what they thought was a fox . |
| 27 | maybe she 's got a bug or something , that 's what I had a few weeks ago remember , mm , mm , oh and then to cap it all |
| 28 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Do you think that 's changed , I mean do you think a hundred years ago , two hundred years ago , five hundred years ago |