Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [art] past [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In making the award , the adjudicating panel will take into account the age of the nominees and the work published by them during the past five years . |
| 2 | ‘ And we have n't had a penny from them for the past two years or more . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My thoughts this evening are much centred on Bishop Harris as he prepares to lay down the ministry which has been his for the past 14 years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you for the past three hours , pacing the corridors , wearing out the carpet . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've learned a lot about you in the past few days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 12 | Now that the election has been announced , will the Minister take the opportunity to apologise to the industry 's workers and employers for failing to do anything to protect them in the past 13 years ? |
| 13 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 14 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've done a lot of work with them over the past three weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 17 | A number of concerned people have contacted me over the past few weeks over my absence from the pages of Shooting Gallery . |
| 18 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 19 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 20 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 21 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 22 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 23 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If he had n't managed to convince her during the past eighteen years , he was unlikely to succeed this morning . |
| 26 | I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something … |
| 29 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 30 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |