Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adj] [noun] 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 | It must have been six months ago , when he started stealing money from his uncle . ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 4 | If it 'd depended on my father we 'd have been dead years ago . |
| 5 | Whatever justification there may have been 600 years ago for riot and revolt , there was never such justification today . |
| 6 | ’ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Gaiters , you would imagine , would have been banned years ago , as they enable the dashing bishop to show a leg in its full shape . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Smith , though , believes Rangers are now better able to handle their injury problems than they would have been five years ago . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |