Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 |
| 3 | Well I know a long while ago |
| 4 | I knew a long time ago it was n't right when he wanted to … . ’ |
| 5 | 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is the , the , the quality of some of our street light and equipment here and there throughout Suffolk is old or very out of date and even run down indicator procedure , so we have got a large real programme as well as repairing ones already there . |
| 6 | I wrote a long time ago to his Department and asked it to move against him and the Department failed to do so . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Good do you remember a long time ago doing factor trees and I gave you three sixty to do ? |
| 9 | ‘ As you know a little while ago there were discussions between this Office and Stephenson Harwood [ the applicant 's former solicitors ] about a proposed interview to be conducted under the terms of section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 and I promised to provide further details to them of our proposed course of action which is now given to you instead of them : ( 1 ) This Office intends to hold an interview with you under section 2 on Thursday , 13 June 1991 . |
| 10 | ‘ She died a long time ago . |
| 11 | You mention a little while ago . |
| 12 | I thought that was a lesson we learnt a long time ago ! ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Some pact they made a long time ago . ’ |
| 15 | They arrived a little while ago . |
| 16 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 17 | He 's given me a few jokes but only ones he used a long time ago ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 19 | he 's , he died a little while ago . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It was their affair , and it ended a long time ago . |
| 23 | The rest of us quit a long time ago . |