Sentence examples for ago picked from inspiring English sources

Mr. Graves said that he had long ago picked a place where he wanted to be buried.

While Kournikova long ago picked up her belongings and relocated to Florida, Dementieva has been unmoved by her fame.

Mike, a California native who started coming to Troncones 15 years ago, picked us up at our hotel in his mud-spattered truck with its rack of surfboards.

It was Hank Hardaway who one day 20 years ago picked up the family room television and walked it out the door.

Wednesday, it turns out, was the day that NBC News long ago picked for "Taking the Hill: Inside Congress," a special hosted by Brian Williams, the network's anchor, on Sunday.

With a wry smile, Filipinos remind visitors that they were once Asia's second-richest country, behind only Japan; and that a perhaps mythical World Bank report half a century ago picked them as Asia's most promising prospects (alongside the Burmese).Islamist and Communist insurgencies rumble on in parts of the country.

That's how he described himself the other day, sitting at his corner table in the Four Seasons (the restaurant he designed 37 years ago), picking abstemiously at the baked potato that was his entire lunch.

"God Bless the Go-Go's," due out next month from Beyond Music — the same label that engineered Blondie's comeback a few years ago — picks up right where "Talk Show" left off.

The "lad", an Irishman in his late 40s who works for the trainer Nicky Henderson, placed his wager months ago, picking out five horses from his employer's yard, all of which have won at his week's Festival, netting him a life-changing sum.

"Two days ago I picked up something going at 600mph.

A few weeks ago, I picked up most of these plants at a garden store.