Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] them [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 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 3 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You know it 's in in the form that we 've done them in the past . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |