Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have stayed within the requirements of our banking covenants for the past eight consecutive quarters . |
| 2 | He sat me down and as the camera whirred , I was encouraged to ramble about the past . |
| 3 | David Bailer does not think about the past very often . |
| 4 | ‘ No , dear — it 's kind of you , but when you get to my age you like to sit quietly and think about the past — and I watch my telly and listen to carols on my old wireless and then the Home Help comes and puts me to bed . |
| 5 | Retiring NCS chairman Sir Martin Wood said that it had ‘ no axe to grind about the past — nobody knew how promising [ high temperature superconductivity ] would become . |
| 6 | However , if they did , each year , the future of the competition would not be nearly so bright and varied as the past . |
| 7 | They rub salt into God 's wounds by romanticizing about the past . |
| 8 | I got a bit carried away with Martha and dallied in the Arran Heritage centre over long — ‘ Everyone wants to know about the past and it is too late . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We ca n't always apologize for the past . |
| 10 | FORGET ABOUT THE PAST |
| 11 | ‘ Forget about the past . |
| 12 | In fact , we can turn the apparent paradox on its head : what would happen if the people of the future decided not to communicate with the past , despite the fact that their histories told them that they were going to ? |
| 13 | The future is not interfering with the past ; instead , it is fulfilling its obligations , as it were , by bringing about events that have already been reported . |
| 14 | Beautiful cover showing a window opening into the past for this time travel tale about an Oxford student stepping back into the Middle Ages to finish her thesis and ending up in the middle of the plague . |
| 15 | Earlier plot sequences recede into the past of the text ; now Slothrop exists only in traces . |
| 16 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 17 | After defeating Brighton 's unseeded Julie Salmon 6–3 , 6–3 , the British No 1 wondered why younger players she beat in the past did n't ask her advice . |
| 18 | The British Boys Champion Cup has been won in the past by men such as Ronan Rafferty and Jose Maria Olathaval . |
| 19 | The British Boys Champion Cup has been won in the past by men such as Ronan Rafferty and Jose Maria Olathaval . |
| 20 | For all the problems that it raises , this formidable wish-list is better than a constantly repeated non , which is about all that France contributed in the past . |
| 21 | Somehow Florian 's words must have summoned the memory of that first time they had worked together , long years ago , and that sensation of a shadow falling on her had come from the past . |
| 22 | His home and car had been fire- bombed and Mr Reynolds had been attacked in the past . |
| 23 | The kind of place where dark deeds in the name of history have been committed in the past and where a mysterious brooding quality remains . |
| 24 | In general , such an injunction will be granted only when offences have been committed in the past and it appears that mere prosecution will not deter further breaches of the law in the future . |
| 25 | The answer , like the explanation of bird migration , lies in the past , though a much more distant one , for fish are a much more ancient group than the birds . |
| 26 | This down-to-earth good sense has not been sufficiently stressed in the past ; there is a normality , a sanity , a state of psychological health which is so often missing in the more obviously ‘ Romantic ’ of Wordsworth 's contemporaries . |
| 27 | The inhibiting effect of sedimentation on corals has been stressed in the past and it has been said that the absence of corals from the mouths of large rivers , for example those of south-east Asia , is due to the amount of fine suspended sediment . |
| 28 | Yet in order to understand the present pattern and appearance of settlements , allowance has to be made for varying degrees of change occurring in the past . |
| 29 | However , we have to acknowledge the considerable benefits that have accrued in the past because people have hunted — benefits to conservation in general , not to the individual animals being hunted . |
| 30 | In the eighties , though , everything from pop to advertising is telling us that all the golden ages are located in the past . |