Example sentences of "reference to [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 2 | They must necessarily as Christians make reference to the past . |
| 3 | Yet , despite his reference to the past , Vitor had not sounded hostile . |
| 4 | It is not surprising that the references to the past it contains are very brief . |
| 5 | The mood had changed by the end of the Sixties , and became more romantic , more allusive , softer and with many references to the past , which suited Lagerfeld 's handwriting much more than the brash futuristic Sixties looks had done . |