Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that extent it does not matter in principle whether the individuals are described in a particular society as ‘ upper class ’ , ‘ middle class ’ or ‘ lower class ’ , or whether the society is rural or urban : it is a universal that all individuals in all societies have contacts with other individuals ( even the exceptional case — say , a hermit — has occasional societal contacts or has had them in the past , and ‘ isolates ’ are special cases ) . |
| 2 | ‘ The City is certainly more inclined to look kindly on the film trade than before , and thus a considerable weight that has handicapped us in the past is removed ’ , remarked John Maxwell , as he launched British International Pictures ( BIP ) as a public company with interests in production , exhibition and distribution . |
| 3 | Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices . |
| 4 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 5 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 6 | Perhaps there are even some who do not realize we have a magazine , and all those who do know and have supported it in the past , do you really want the magazine to die and be no more ? |
| 7 | As it had never been proposed in the first place , her children could read this only as a piece of unadmitted defensiveness about having ignored them in the past . |
| 8 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 9 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 10 | Her fingers stiffened under the memory of the innumerable raps on the knuckles Sylvie had given her in the past . |
| 11 | You know it 's in in the form that we 've done them in the past . |
| 12 | I have accepted part of it , and I 've amended it to ensure that we can overcome the criticisms er that would have been involved if we 'd left it er as it was , er and above all , and I think this is the most important thing , we 've made sure that it will work , er and that it will meet our objectives of getting competition into the franchises , if we 'd just ended up with one great monolithic British Rail , after all each franchise remember will be coming gradually , they wo n't be doing them all at once , there will be one next year , several the year after , and so on , if British Rail had been able to go around and pick them off , and say , Well we can run this now in the future much better than we 've done it in the past , so we 'll bid , and we 'll bid a low bid , that really would n't have been getting fair and proper competition into the system , so what i what I 've done is ensured , as I 've done all the way through in this bill in accepting amendments , that we make sure we achieve our objectives , and that above all it 's workable , the , as it was it would n't as it was the Paignton amendment would n't have been workable , because there would have been total chaos and confusion |
| 13 | but if they are wankers nothing you do , and including , I mean I 've done it in the past , slowed right down and nine times out of ten it jus it just incenses them to drive even closer . |
| 14 | He 's got a week 's growth of beard which seems to be permanent , judging from the times I 've seen him in the past . |
| 15 | Now er the Buckingham manager , Phil Lines was manager of Brackley and er apparently , as you 've told me in the past , he guided them to their best ever season . |
| 16 | We 've used him in the past on a few projects . |
| 17 | But nearly half of those who had used it in the past , though not using it currently , rated it as never good . |
| 18 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 19 | At the end of the book , she too dies , but not until she has killed everyone who had hurt her in the past . |
| 20 | Their entry into the Town Boys appeared to rest not only on the fact that they had gained reputations but also on their ability to maintain such reputations in the absence of the symbolic dress and tokens of status which had assisted them in the past . |
| 21 | They always came in for more than a little if they had offended him in the past . |
| 22 | When Jack was given the accolade of Best Actor by the New York Critics ' Award for his performance , he responded by sending them all a polite thank-you letter ; those critics who had mentioned him in the past had not been especially kind . |
| 23 | What had abhorred me in the past and sometimes , er , perhaps arrive and been to the church and say , oh by the way it 's communion ! |
| 24 | Appreciative of the loyalty you have given us in the past , we are once again asking for your support . |
| 25 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 26 | ‘ Angry though he 's made me in the past , he is a good lad . |
| 27 | So , if you have done something in the past which you now regret and would do differently were the situation to repeat itself , you should be pleased that you have learned something vital and that your spirit , having dealt with that negative aspect , will not have to encounter it again . |
| 28 | People have done it in the past and have regretted it . |
| 29 | You have used me in the past . |
| 30 | ‘ People have helped me in the past so I thought I would give them a help along the way , ’ he said . |