Example sentences of "past [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 2 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 3 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 4 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 5 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 6 | For the past few hours she had been too busy to think of her own problem . |
| 7 | Sir , — In the past few months we have heard much regarding possible reforms in the working of parliament . |
| 8 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
| 9 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 10 | Over the past few months we have welcomed several new staff : |
| 11 | Over the past few months we 've seen a far higher proportion of our own borrowers being first time buyers , okay at very low levels , but er a much higher proportion being first time buyers . |
| 12 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 13 | In the past few months he has sided with those in the party and the army who have long wanted a crackdown . |
| 14 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 15 | Over the past few months I have noticed a slight decrease in the amount of information being sent for publication in Touchline . |
| 16 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 17 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 18 | And tragically , in the past few weeks we have seen the US and its Allies carry out over 44,000 sorties over a period of 20 days against the people of Iraq . |
| 19 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 20 | Can I just ask you , in the past few weeks we 've all heard , and in fact I 've cited some figures in this programme , that , you know , people have been staying away . |
| 21 | Over the past few weeks they 'd been rubbing along fairly civilly , though not without the occasional spark flying between them . |
| 22 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 23 | erm from the evidence we 've looked at over the past few weeks you know I would say that |
| 24 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 25 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 26 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 27 | He 'd never had any particular fear of darkness , but over the past few weeks he seemed to have grown more and more nervous at night . |
| 28 | Over the past few weeks she had come to the conclusion that the person she would most like to share her home was quiet , devoted Jenny . |
| 29 | During the past few years we have been almost suffocated under a pile of reminiscences . |
| 30 | In the past few years we have seen conservatories grow in popularity . |