Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I stopped mourning a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd realized a long time ago that he 'd married a woman who cuddled complete strangers in the street and probably had a season ticket for West Ham in her handbag . |
| 3 | Those normal , straightforward girls are part ofa society that she chose to leave a long time ago . |
| 4 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 5 | You learned to speak a long time ago and , no doubt , you have talked a good deal since then . |
| 6 | The rain had stopped a short while ago and once more the sun was burning up the atmosphere . |
| 7 | He did refer to the fact that , if the trial proceeded , witnesses would be giving evidence about things that had occurred a long time ago and said that he did ‘ not think that is a position which is salvaged or saved by reason of the fact that there are in being notebooks , that there are in being witness statements . ’ |
| 8 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 9 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 10 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 11 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 12 | And this kiss was meaningless , because there was nothing behind it ; it was only the last flickering spark of something they had destroyed a long time ago . |
| 13 | You know , you 'd think things had changed a long time ago but erm I remember having Chrissy in that yard when he was a baby in his pushchair where and there was the coalman 's horse and erm |