Example sentences of "[det] time ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Dorothy , do you remember a story in the news some time ago about a chap who had somebody who was homeless living in the shed at the bottom of his garden ? ’ |
| 2 | He said that some time ago the POWs fund was merged with a general purposes benefit fund for all old comrades of the regiment , but that POWs were given priority in any benefit payouts . |
| 3 | An ally is a nation which you beat fair and square in a war some time ago and which is now on your side . |
| 4 | Rumours were circulating that a computer virus had been injected into software systems some time ago by computer terrorists and was programmed to break out yesterday , wiping out all data in the ailing computer system . |
| 5 | Some time ago , Rover 's management declared its intention to move all its cars up-market , perhaps to produce them in smaller volumes than in the days of Austin Rover , to charge higher prices and make more profit per unit . |
| 6 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 7 | Completed some time ago , the government then held up its publication when the Spycatcher affair erupted , so that it could not be accused of double standards in trying to ban Wright 's book while giving Hinsley 's the nod . |
| 8 | But thanks to its urgent need for ‘ hard ’ ( ie. capitalist ) currency , even Albania was forced to open its borders to tourism some time ago . |
| 9 | ‘ It was arranged some time ago . ’ |
| 10 | I told you , I think , that I had met Jennifer first , some time ago . ’ |
| 11 | Some time ago … in a high attic I heard once again the laud or summons or complaint of bells … . |
| 12 | ‘ The Mr Elmore who had a lot of difficulty with his mother-in-law some time ago ? , |
| 13 | ‘ Do you know what I found in his trunk some time ago , right at the bottom ? |
| 14 | In fact the remilitarisation of West Berlin began some time ago . |
| 15 | It must have fallen into the trap some time ago . |
| 16 | I saw this some time ago . |
| 17 | CHOOSING my words carefully , I asked a top Mercedes-Benz diesel engineer some time ago which diesel he would drive — assuming that he could n't afford a Mercedes . |
| 18 | Though they will travel well prepared , the Lancashire club have no idea as to the strength of opposition they will meet , Harlequins having indicated some time ago that a number of their senior players may have other commitments during the Easter break . |
| 19 | I came to the school some time ago to investigate the giant eel and got lost . |
| 20 | I have a SWB IIA petrol and some time ago a slightly higher lift cam was fitted from Piper and the timing was set to Piper 's spec . |
| 21 | I tiptoed upstairs , some time ago , and I could hear her crying . ’ |
| 22 | He sees the Livesey case as a simple robbery , because our friend Parks 's cab was involved in a bank snatch , some time ago . |
| 23 | ‘ We understand that you worked at Liveseys ' , some time ago . ’ |
| 24 | Frank Tompa of the University of Waterloo E-Mailed me some time ago with your request for a copy of the tape for the OALDCE 3/e Electronic computer-readable dictionary . |
| 25 | In other words , studies of television genre begin to reinvent some of the wheels which film authorship and genre studies set in motion some time ago . |
| 26 | As a birthday celebration some time ago , I set off with a companion to conquer the two more accessible ones , Sgurr Thuilm and Sgurr nan Coireachan . |
| 27 | She must have gone to bed some time ago , else Jessie would n't have been able to sneak out . |
| 28 | ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece . |
| 29 | But my hand had stopped bleeding some time ago and I could not reasonably pretend that I was wounded . |
| 30 | But I do know that the real Louise Müller was removed some time ago so that you could take her place . ’ |