Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the past [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 2 | Hong Kong has transformed the regions surrounding it in the past five or six years . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 5 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |