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Example sentences for "year ago"

  • But, since yer here, I don't mind tellin' ye that but for me that gal of yours would have run away a year ago, and married an unknown lover.

  • A year ago I was fishing one day away up the river, squatting under a bush on a bank, when Peggy and Dr.

  • A year ago, before I went away, you wished me not to mind about displeasing father; and now you seem to recommend me to take another line.

  • I felt the truth stirring blindly in my heart that first night, now a year ago, when I saw you in the old home, and read your candid eyes, and heard your clear voice, and marked your steady and serene influence upon all about you.

  • It would have been better if I had called him out and shot him a year ago," said Sir James, not from bloody-mindedness, but because he needed something strong to say.

  • A year ago we had a happy, beautiful home, and my girl a father whom all men respected.

  • His face was full of solicitude and anxiety--indeed he looked almost the same as he might have looked and acted a year ago, before he had ever imagined that such a demon would possess him.

  • A year ago he'd romp and talk nonsense with me to my heart's content; but that's all passed.

  • He gave me them a year ago, when he was sixty.

  • This was the last time but one, more than a year ago.

  • Then suddenly Sally remembered her talk with the doctor a year ago.

  • What a triumphant achievement of her dream of a year ago!

  • However, our children's room is a paradise to what it was a year ago, and so I hope.

  • About a year ago, I submitted a rule to the Board for their approval, and asked permission to have it printed on cards, for use on the tables in the reading room.

  • A year ago my son, the heir to the throne of Japan, bolted from our Imperial Court.

  • A year ago I was a member of the Titipu town band.

  • A year ago I, together with other officers of the Government, initiated extensive cooperative measures throughout the country.

  • This is the selfsame body that was tied to the stake in the market place of the king's city many a year ago.

  • For so it is that in the early spring, somewhat more than a year ago that is, one morning when folk arose, the Queen's place was empty.

  • The report of the Postmaster-General gives interesting statistics of his Department, and compares them with the corresponding statistics of a year ago, showing a growth in every branch of the Department.

  • Accordingly I did so, and drew from him that about a year ago he had been seriously ill of Roman fever; but as he hesitated, and seemed unwilling to speak on the subject, I questioned the friend.

  • It means that he gave Los Cuervos to his mistress a year ago, and that she sold it to me--to me, you hear!

  • It was a year ago, the eve of Natividad, he was in the church when I sang.

  • And took thee away again, and I saw thee not till thou camest with Antonio, over a year ago, to the cattle branding.

  • A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger.

  • This is our good fortune; and I welcome it now as I did a year ago.

  • A year ago, less than 900 Peace Corps volunteers were on the job.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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