Example sentences of "ago [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to think ourselves back into a social system and culture very different from our own if we are to respond , in the way P. C. Wren required , to the improbable events and exalted sentiments of the three Geste brothers who , to serve their adored aunt and their fraternal obligations , vanished into the Foreign Legion , taking upon themselves the imputation of having stolen the blue diamond which she had long ago sold and replaced by a fake for the sake of her extravagant husband . |
| 2 | Standard-setters have long ago realised that there is a trade-off between objectivity and relevance in accounting information , and on the face of it , unfudgeability is simply a pejorative term for objectivity |
| 3 | He had long ago realised that if he was going to find any clues to the whereabouts of the Way Out , the location or identity of the Key , there was a good chance he might get some ideas from that type of writing . |
| 4 | Taylor long ago argued that the advantages emerged over several years of contact and that in an emergency most experienced doctors could successfully manage their patient 's problem . |
| 5 | Colin phoned him up , and er , it it he mentioned , how he was starting up , and he said he might be interested , anyway Colin phoned him a couple of weeks ago to see if he was still interested in . |
| 6 | A survey by Don Mosey , helped by the Yorkshire Cricket Association , three years ago revealed that there were 1,798 clubs in organised cricket leagues in the county . |
| 7 | The International Federation of Chemical , Energy and General Workers Unions about a year ago revealed that a study conducted for the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ( NIOSH ) among workers in a New Jersey Plant working with the proteolytic bacterial enzyme Esperase in producing a bleach showed they had become immunologically sensitised to the enzyme , despite very low levels of exposure . |
| 8 | Scientific studies carried out a few years ago revealed that regular sunbed users ( those using a bed more than once a week over a period of a few years ) now have a condition called skin fragility syndrome . |
| 9 | Helen Harrison-Hall went to Allen and Overy eight years ago to train and has worked there ever since . |
| 10 | A survey conducted nearly twenty years ago found that less than half of the electorate even knew his name . |
| 11 | Shipmasters long ago found that their societies are never likely to help them owing to the inevitable scattering of members and the indifference which distance begets . |
| 12 | The political argument for conventionalism I set out a moment ago supposes that this kind of situation is inevitable , that no theory of adjudication can prevent it . |
| 13 | Actually , I was surprised when looking through some book a couple of years ago to find that players like Gray played relatively few game per season , often being injured . |
| 14 | Joshua Cohen had long ago recognised that Jacob would never make a businessman and had quickly abandoned his dream of having his son join him in his scrap-iron store . |
| 15 | ‘ I long ago noted that to a doctor keeping confidences meant telling your patient nothing and his relatives everything . |
| 16 | He took out an endowment policy ten years ago to mature when he reached the age of sixty . ’ |
| 17 | I was at one point some years ago told that more money 's invested in pigeon racing than in horse racing . |
| 18 | Public opinion long ago condemned and outlawed the exploitation of child labour by nineteenth century industrialists . |
| 19 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 20 | Ballesteros starts today nine adrift in joint fifth place , but his first victory in America 15 years ago came after he trailed by ten at the same stage , and that in the 1986 Monte Carlo Open he was seven behind with only one round to go and still triumphed . |
| 21 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
| 22 | The man who said he saw the ‘ green shoots ’ of recovery nearly two years ago claimed that under Tory rule the country had done better than many of its competitors . |
| 23 | Studies a few years ago showed that by spraying pheromones onto chairs in a doctor 's waiting room , there was a marked difference in the way people chose to sit on them . |
| 24 | THE Einstein Observatory survey of cosmic X-ray sources a decade ago showed that coronae were common among diverse types of star , and were in many cases more energetic than the Sun 's corona . |
| 25 | But those were the days of innocence , long ago vanished and past recovery . |
| 26 | General Motors approached the Smithsonian six or seven years ago asking if we would be interested in the last Cadillac convertible from its assembly line . |
| 27 | I think I wrote to you a couple of months ago asking if you could provide a synopsis of the latest information regarding otter movements in the lower Usk area and the likely impacts of the barrage . |
| 28 | ‘ There was a lady who called two weeks ago crying because her tortoise had died . |
| 29 | Is the Secretary of State aware that those of us who recall the area 40 years ago believe that the German-led policy is the height of folly ? |
| 30 | He should have gone forever once the drug testers in Seoul four years ago established that the boastful arm he raised to Carl Lewis was actually saluting a lie . |