Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] year ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 2 | ’ If we were still in our own country , Andreas , a man like you would have been married years ago and you would have many children to delight you in your old age . ’ |
| 3 | Smith , though , is of the opinion that Rangers ' problems , while substantial , are better able to be handled now than they would have been five years ago . |
| 4 | Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago . |
| 5 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 6 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 7 | Whatever justification there may have been 600 years ago for riot and revolt , there was never such justification today . |
| 8 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |
| 9 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 10 | Instead of taking up the normal position from which to look at Los Angeles — which would be that of a driver — Adams adopts the role of a botanist , or perhaps a botanical historian looking for traces of the Eden that Southern California is well attested to have been 80 years ago : " live oaks on the hills , orchards across the valleys , and ornamental cypress , palms , and eucalyptus lining the roads " . |
| 11 | She did n't want to understand him , but heated recognition rippled through her as she stared at his mouth , as unwillingly fascinated by its sensual curve as she had been six years ago , when all her breathlessly adored heroes had suddenly become prosaic and petty with the advent of the man from Hong Kong . |
| 12 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 13 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 14 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 15 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |
| 16 | The hands moved away , downwards , across the hard muscle of his stomach that was as tough and flat as it had been ten years ago , when he was eighteen . |
| 17 | The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting . |
| 18 | I enjoyed the gnocchi in a friendly watering hole along the road , however , and the Elban wine was just as good as it had been 30 years ago . |