Example sentences of "have [verb] a year ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would you have thought a year ago that you would be spending your next name-day in Paris ? |
| 2 | In the words of Zohreh Tabatabai , Chief of Public Services of the United Nations in New York ; ‘ If this had come a year ago , we would have said ‘ no way ’ . |
| 3 | He was an incredibly fit old man , whose wife had died a year ago . |
| 4 | And then she read , in a copy of The Stage that happened to be turned in her direction , a paragraph about him which made it clear that the wife whom he was talking about in this present tense had died a year ago , and that he had had a row of flops in London . |
| 5 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 6 | The same thing had happened a year ago when Peter Senior slipped past him . |
| 7 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |