Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 2 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 3 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 4 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 5 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 6 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 7 | First , we had the idea one autumn of writing to all those who had been bereaved in the past three years and had had contact with the church . |
| 8 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 9 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 10 | A Faroese government spokesman said that only 1,550 whales had been killed in the past ten years in a non-commercial hunt which gave islanders an important local source of nutrition . |
| 11 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 12 | Absolutely — and it is the Secretary of State 's Department that is guilty of taking benefits away from millions of people who would have benefited if the Labour Government 's policies had been maintained over the past 12 years by this tawdry , rotten Tory Government . |
| 13 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 14 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
| 15 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 16 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 17 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the government 's majority had been reduced in the past year from over 40 to five following defections from various coalition parties . |
| 19 | On a recent visit to Warsaw I found that many of the street names had been changed during the past year . |
| 20 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 21 | Some 750 Brazilian street children ( believed to number up to 12,000,000 throughout the country ) went to Brasília in late September for a conference , at which they said 624 of their number had been murdered in the past 19 months , many of them by death squads . |
| 22 | And Dr Poyntz also paid tribute to the 3,000 members of the Prison Service , 29 of whom had been murdered in the past 24 years . |
| 23 | The Social Secretary outlined the events which had been held in the past year , all of them well attended . |
| 24 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 25 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 26 | A survey last August by the Consumers Association suggested that one garden in 20 had been burgled in the past two years , and that the average value of each theft was £130 . |
| 27 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 28 | In October the Russian Orthodox Bishops ' Council said that nearly 3,000 church buildings had been reopened in the past 18 months , bringing the number of working parishes to 9,734 ; the number of theological students had doubled to 3,948 . |
| 29 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |