Example sentences of "[noun pl] ago [pron] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Twelve months ago we lost to Donegal when a few harsh decisions went against us . |
| 2 | TWO months ago I travelled to the former Yugoslavia and visited hospitals and camps filled with the displaced and wounded of the Bosnian conflict . |
| 3 | And now they have an added attraction a few weeks ago they danced to the music of the 14-piece Cleveland Orchestra in a first for the group . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | you know three weeks ago I wrote to Scarborough College and the buggers have n't written back , even to acknowledge my letter . . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | In fact , a couple of weeks ago he confided to me that he rather enjoyed losing his temper . |
| 8 | A couple of weeks ago he spoke to a seething crowd in Harare township , which included hundreds of his young African militants . |
| 9 | Ten years ago everything had to be natural . |
| 10 | Many Americans regret the fact that they now discuss sport with the passion that 200 years ago they brought to everyday debates on theories of representative government ( and , as historians of the revolution have made plain , there really were such debates ) . |
| 11 | Thirty and Forty years ago they played to packed houses up and down the country … now they 're doing it again |
| 12 | Because the method is so useful — not only in this connection but also for other memory techniques — many years ago we committed to memory our own personal hooks for each number from 1 — 100 . |
| 13 | Many years ago we went to Boaventura and back by bus . |
| 14 | or confessing that years ago we went to bed |
| 15 | Some years ago we lent to a colleague a memory-training book with a very attractive title , which implied that after studying the book the reader would have a superb memory for all occasions . |
| 16 | About three years ago we moved to a farm . |
| 17 | The prosection claims they tampered with a statement in a fraud case five years ago which led to a man being jailed for six years . |
| 18 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 19 | A couple of years ago he wrote to several of our authors saying that he was dying , their work meant a lot to him , could they write something for him . |
| 20 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
| 21 | A stroke in 1976 started his health problems , and five years ago he moved to Sussex . |
| 22 | Now you have told me that sixteen years ago you retired to Sussex for a quiet life . |
| 23 | Eleven years ago I wrote to the then President of our Institute making the case for expanding the role of the Institute . |
| 24 | Some years ago I said to him , ‘ I live on Mikonos now . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Ten minutes ago I walked to the end of the street and waited . |