Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] time ago [that] " in BNC.
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1 | Someone reported a long time ago that an old lady , on her deathbed , was heard to say : ‘ Weel , it will be a great blessing to hear at last the real truth of the Gowrie conspiracy ’ . |
2 | THE NATIONAL MARRIAGE GUIDANCE COUNCIL ( now called RELATE ) recognised a long time ago that the fabric of society has changed and one of the reasons for the organisation 's change of name is that it now deals with all personal crisis situations . |
3 | But human beings discovered a long time ago that if the birds were taken away from their homes , they had an uncanny ability to return even across miles of territory that was totally unknown to them . |
4 | ‘ I did n't pick Davis , we chose each other and decided a long time ago that we wanted to play this tournament together . |
5 | Cardinal Heenan warned a long time ago that by the year 2,000 there would be no Catholic Church in our country if something was not done to rectify things . |
6 | Police said a short time ago that a thirty one year old local man had been arrested . |
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 . |