Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But there is one thing that does very much interest me , as it happens … and that 's your answer to my question … the one I asked five minutes ago and to which you have so far avoided giving an answer … ’ |
| 2 | The vow I made four years ago that someday I would go on the Boards . |
| 3 | I realised many years ago that I was not a studio painter . |
| 4 | Some of my friendships from then I have retained and someone I met twenty years ago I still live with . |
| 5 | When my right hon. Friend the Minister of State next has contact with the Indonesian ambassador , will he express the abhorrence of the House at the indiscriminate shooting of men , women and children in Dili , which I visited three years ago with other hon. Members ? |
| 6 | Personally , I have been using the Church shoe index that I created some years ago . |
| 7 | My wife and I divorced 12 years ago — and she has since remarried . |
| 8 | It also covers the competitiveness of British industry and commerce , a point to which I referred some moments ago . |
| 9 | my copy of the constitution that I filed away so neatly when I received that months ago . |
| 10 | This therefore will be my last Sunday with you and so I take this opportunity to thank you again for all your kindnesses to me and for the way you made me welcome when I arrived 5 years ago ( does n't time fly ! ) . |
| 11 | Wendell 's voice was quiet and matter-of-fact as he said , ‘ I guessed some time ago that you 'd fallen for Harry . ’ |
| 12 | One moved to Woodhall Farm which I joined 11 years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ I joined 25 years ago and I became chairman in 1981 for five years , ’ he says . |
| 14 | I began 4 years ago with 150ml stock bottles , went on to 100ml stock bottles and I now use 5ml dropper bottles ! |
| 15 | ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ With all this background work on which to draw , I decided two years ago to mount an experimental project which would define the difference between nature and nurture . |
| 17 | Erm when i started fifteen years ago , it was an intake of about twenty five er lads at a time , we 're now down to about unfortunately eight or nine craft apprentices . |
| 18 | When I started six years ago I did n't know , shall I still be living when this project is completed ? |
| 19 | With all the hauteur of a Southern lady , the phrasing of her refusal was admirable : ‘ To hurt innocent people whom I knew many years ago in order to save myself is , to me , inhuman , indecent and dishonourable . |
| 20 | A lady I knew many years ago designed knitted suits and so on at the drop of a hat . |
| 21 | ‘ The man I knew three years ago would never have stood serving sausages to other people . |
| 22 | ‘ The innocence I saw five years ago is gone , ’ he said calmly , ‘ and one day you 're going to tell me how it happened . |
| 23 | The other device I saw some time ago was a timing light for diesels , this obtained its triggering pulse from a sensor clipped to no.1 injector pipe . |
| 24 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 25 | I chose many years ago to explore the avenue of detailed drawings of wildlife and I have largely stuck with the same technique . |
| 26 | The reason is not that I now disagree with the stance I took ten years ago , but that in this past decade my own understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in the individual and in the Church has greatly developed , and the whole charismatic or renewal movement , then comparatively young , has matured enormously within the life of the Church at large . |
| 27 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 28 | I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago . |
| 29 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave some moments ago . |
| 30 | I refer my hon. Friend to the answer that I gave some moments ago . |