Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 2 | Thrift apologizes , whingeing , for the poisoned sausage , reminding Alix that she ate it twenty years ago , when she had no money and needed the sausage . |
| 3 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 4 | She has run a Beavers Club for boys aged six and seven since she founded it 27 years ago . |
| 5 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 6 | Wordsworth has observed a primrose perched on top of a rock ; in the second stanza he remembers that he first saw it many years ago ( actually 1802 . |
| 7 | ‘ It was like an enchanted garden when we first saw it six years ago , very full and wild . |
| 8 | ‘ I asked the son how he knew how much was stolen and he said he last counted it 12 months ago . ’ |
| 9 | Try it for yourself : go out into a meadow , a village street , stand by the bank of a stream or on the sea shore and imagine the people who knew it 1,000 years ago . |
| 10 | I bought a little farm near Oakville some years ago at four thousand an acre … sold it two years ago at fifteen thousand an acre … was n't that lucky ! … after all the hard-up years I lived through … almost starving at times … it was Mr Workman who gave me your address for this letter … poor old Fred … he 's getting old like the rest of us … |
| 11 | Police have located the owner of a van with the same number plates , who described the builders ' logo on the vehicle when he sold it several months ago . |
| 12 | I was knocked out by how brilliant it was when I first read it eight years ago , and now I want to put on a national tour and direct it . ’ |
| 13 | A WOMAN has sold her car back to the garage where she bought it 32 years ago — and got more than she paid . |
| 14 | The house sank into a gently decayed condition when a local architect bought it four years ago . |
| 15 | Software engineering outfit Dazix is now Intergraph Electronics after the company that bought it two years ago . |
| 16 | Then I tried the new needle supplied with the machine when I bought it many years ago . |
| 17 | I was quite embarrassed when we did it two years ago . ’ |
| 18 | I did it ten years ago c . |
| 19 | I liked it six hours ago , but will I still ? ’ |
| 20 | Farloe Melody , bidding for his third appearance in the Derby final — he won it two years ago — has missed out in the trap draw for heat 15 . |
| 21 | And it 's the only house now well I left it I left it five year ago but it still belongs to my son . |
| 22 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 23 | Well we had , we had it two weeks ago |
| 24 | The ancient Chinese invented it 2,000 years ago as a way to pass instructions down the line and information up to the top . |
| 25 | THE landmark spire of Colmcille Roman Catholic church in Holywood has risen from the ashes of the fire which virtually destroyed it four years ago . |
| 26 | The Prince missed it two years ago with the same back trouble . |