Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few words had passed between them over the past week , and now she could see that it was with an effort he said , ‘ Your mother tells me about this idea of hers . |
| 2 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 3 | Has he learned or discovered anything about himself during the past four years ? |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past half-hour ! ’ |
| 5 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 6 | While she stood staring at it , breathing heavily and conscious that if anyone had made a fool of herself during the past few minutes it was Melissa Craig , the phone began to ring again . |
| 7 | She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something … |
| 8 | He 's still alive and yet I keep thinking of him in the past tense . |
| 9 | After carrying out a survey of the number of people who have died of it over the past three years , COHSE 's Scottish regional officer , Jim Devine , said the union believed many low-paid workers and pensioners were forced to make a choice between eating and heating . |
| 10 | I have read it now from cover to cover — every word of it for the past seven years — since I first got hooked on running . |
| 11 | Ask Dr John Maunder , head of the Medical Entomology Centre at the University of Cambridge , which is the most dangerous parasite we are likely to meet in Britain , and he will say that there is one which afflicts millions of us and has killed 20,000 of us in the past decade . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 14 | I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections . |
| 15 | On top of that , nine county court judgments and a High Court judgment have been made against him in the past two years , including £6,227 , still unpaid , owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've done a lot of work with them over the past three weeks . |
| 17 | I 've played along with you for the past hour . |
| 18 | A team of linguists and experts in primate communication have been working intensively with her during the past year to teach her English . |
| 19 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 20 | It has been with us for the past 10 years . |
| 21 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 23 | We have not had a great deal of communication from you over the past two years , and it is questionable whether we are of use to you , and you to us . |
| 24 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 25 | Mr. Mendez had bought maybe 25 or 30 from him during the past year . |
| 26 | His little-boy mask had slipped by a fraction , a sure sign of the energies that had been taken from him in the past hour , and someone else was looking out — someone much harder , more calculating . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 28 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 29 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 30 | Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’ |