Example sentences of "[noun] ago i [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO months ago I travelled to the former Yugoslavia and visited hospitals and camps filled with the displaced and wounded of the Bosnian conflict . |
| 2 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 3 | you know three weeks ago I wrote to Scarborough College and the buggers have n't written back , even to acknowledge my letter . . |
| 4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that some three weeks ago I spoke to the business community in Blackpool , who expressed concern about the possibility of local government reform ? |
| 5 | Eleven years ago I wrote to the then President of our Institute making the case for expanding the role of the Institute . |
| 6 | Some years ago I said to him , ‘ I live on Mikonos now . ’ |
| 7 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 8 | Ten minutes ago I walked to the end of the street and waited . |
| 9 | ‘ When we first moved in over a year ago I wrote to the police in the traffic section at Winchester about the situation in Holybourne , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |