Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Big Ben has missed the past two finals , through injury , but showed himself right back to his best with a victory in the recent Tampa Invitational . |
| 2 | For what it is worth , my own sample of one sixth-form biologist found Hunting the Past excellent reading . |
| 3 | Yet the governments have spent the past three months warning the commission not to propose any serious liberalisation of trade or strengthening of political ties . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman has spent the past two years as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister . |
| 5 | The personal computers — bought for £15 000 , 15 months ago — are not even up to this job , said CND , and the organisation has spent the past year trying to exchange the system . |
| 6 | For the Ulster woman has spent the past year trying to adopt the pretty five-year-old she met in the dark and desolate corridors of a Romanian orphanage . |
| 7 | The only complaint to have survived the past few hours was the one relating to the damage of an apartment door ; the couple in the next room had wanted Lucas to be prosecuted , crucified even . |
| 8 | Possibly because of this widespread feeling that relationships between health and social services were good , planning for April 1993 got left behind , and the city has spent the past few months frantically catching up . |
| 9 | The couple have spent the past six months buying furniture for their rooms within the Godfrey Ermen Home and are considering a belated honeymoon . |
| 10 | PUPILS from a mid-Essex school have spent the past week conducting a survey of the local public footpath network . |
| 11 | One in 38 companies actively trading in England and Wales failed to survive the past three months . |
| 12 | The Sheldon family have spent the past month wondering why . |