Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [adj] [noun] ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can only assume this was designed a long time ago , say roughly 1983 ; surely even Peter Snow must now realise that a Labour landslide is rather more likely than a Tory one . |
| 2 | ‘ Put it this way , I was approached a few months ago by a couple of guys in one of my clubs who said that they wanted to see the gaffer . |
| 3 | Over 900 of them said : ‘ It should have come a long time ago — very few people have done more for charity , public service and their Party than you have ’ . |
| 4 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 5 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 6 | Whether or not the law of negligence was correctly applied a hundred years ago in Walker v. Great Northern Railway Co. of Ireland , 28 L.R.Ir. 69 , it has since then been evolving . |
| 7 | We may have met a long time ago at Rotherfield when I was on a weekend outing from school , but I would n't expect you to remember — it was at least 10 years ago and I ca n't imagine I was a memorable schoolgirl ! |
| 8 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 9 | It was decided a long time ago and the waiting is over . ’ |
| 10 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 11 | No , this was done a long while ago , |
| 12 | Some conversions that were done a long time ago would not pass today 's stringent building regulations . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 14 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 15 | Is not the Minister deeply ashamed that he intends to carry on with that cruel and stupid tax instead of scrapping it , as he should have done a long time ago ? |
| 16 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 17 | Yes , Dutch , yes , no not as I say , not far away , that was Deut the first the first one we heard was Deutscheland , and that was the Dutch one , that 's the Netherlands one , erm , written a long time ago , written in the sixteenth century , written as a piece of music , erm , the tune , apparently very very old indeed , erm , and Mozart took the tune , and made variations on it , which is perhaps why it sounds familiar , you 've probably heard it somewhere else . |
| 18 | And he had the article written a few years ago about the missing Tsarist treasures . |
| 19 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 20 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 21 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 22 | The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned . |
| 23 | These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered . |
| 24 | During such a study , a serendipitous observation was made a few years ago in our laboratory at Bangalore . |
| 25 | I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago . |
| 26 | ‘ When the draw for the quarter-final was made a few weeks ago , I was delighted at being paired with Derry City ’ he declared . |
| 27 | St Catherine 's Dock was busy as a Hogarth etching and smelt as if something should have been quietly buried a long time ago . |
| 28 | And thoughts that were thought a long time ago are as dead as old Squeez-Ee detergent bottles , and as slow to biodegrade . |
| 29 | well it was a book that was produced a little while ago you can buy that tape deck off me if you like |
| 30 | This grew while the city docks declined and finally were closed a few years ago . |