Example sentences of "[num] [noun] ago i [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nice to speak to you , erm , I 'd just like to say that er , take me now as a , as a normal chap from England who looked across right through his life at Russia as the big bad bear and eight years ago I had the opportunity of going over there , just an ordinary chap and er , of course , there 's so much about the Soviet Union we do n't know , we did , we , erm , for instance we were over there in 1982 when they were celebrating sixty years of the incorporation of the saints into the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | Three weeks ago I became the proud owner of a Chihuahua and he 's changed my life completely . |
| 3 | Looking for support and because I thought the Royal Society of Chemistry would welcome an opportunity of improving the standing of chemists in the community , some three years ago I sent the secretary-general of the RSC a letter very similar to the one published ( Chem . |
| 4 | Three years ago I changed the staffing arrangements and now have one full-time live-in helper . |
| 5 | Three years ago I joined the Trust as a single member and later converted to family membership . |
| 6 | I live surrounded by farmland and I am pleased no foxhunters are allowed , as over 50 years ago I experienced the killing of a fox by hounds . |
| 7 | Twenty five years ago I became the Member of Parliament for East Grinstead . |
| 8 | Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell . |
| 9 | Twenty years ago I joined the Labour Party when I was eighteen years old which gives an idea of how old I am now . |