Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [vb pp] for [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've worked for the past two year really |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll cope , I expect , I 've coped for the past year … ’ |
| 3 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 4 | Nothing guarantees that the Americans and Russians will go on supplying it as they have done for the past couple of years . |
| 5 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 6 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 7 | Mr Diplexcito , his wife and three daughters have fought a rearguard action for the past two years to stop their cottage at Spittalburn , where they have lived for the past 17 years , being buried by earthworks . |
| 8 | For the thirty or so recruits of Calais Platoon , part of the Adult Training Company , today is the day towards which they have worked for the past five months . |