Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |
| 2 | Forgive others for what they may have done to you in the past ; and forgive yourself as well — you have probably learned much from your mistakes . |
| 3 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 4 | Erm erm I , I think that you know I , that had occurred to me in the past |
| 5 | I 've spoken to him in the past about making the place over to you . |
| 6 | Finally , it is worth bearing in mind that if , as now seems likely , the process of cephalization occurred independently in several arthropodan lineages ( see p.5 ) , interpretations of the head which rely on comparisons between the insects and other arthropod groups no longer have the validity ascribed to them in the past . |
| 7 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 8 | I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life . |
| 9 | He will shift very rapidly between different representations of the equipment ; the thing itself , his maintenance instructions , the manual , the drawings of the system , verbal discussion with a colleague , his recollection of what has happened to it in the past and so on . |
| 10 | So often , what has happened to us in the past determines whether or not we find it easy to trust both ourselves and others emotionally as adults . |
| 11 | I 've had a wonderful run , and I 've enjoyed it hugely and I just ca n't say what it has meant to me over the past four marvellous Ryder Cups . |
| 12 | She 's always , she has had compliments paid to her in the past , has n't she . |