Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 2 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 3 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 4 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 5 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 6 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 7 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 8 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 9 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 10 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 11 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |
| 12 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 13 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 14 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
| 15 | I thank all the people who have supported us over the past eleven years and assure them that T.R. Shipping will be every bit as dedicated in the future . ’ |