Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had agreed to the live radio interview readily enough , probably expecting it to run the course of a dozen or so others he 'd done over the past couple of years . |
| 2 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 3 | Look at what she 'd faced in the past twelve hours . |
| 4 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 5 | The increases were necessary , it was announced , because the burden of government subsidies had quadrupled over the past 10 years . |
| 6 | I WAS once interviewed for a radio programme on BBC and was asked how deaf people had fared during the past 20 years . |
| 7 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 8 | An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours . |
| 9 | Her collarbone was ambushing her with surprise guerrilla raids of searing pain while her head was screaming revenge for the ordeals it had undergone during the past twelve hours . |
| 10 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 11 | And Faye planned to show off the eight paintings she had done over the past four months , six of which featured Belinda and all of which were now professionally framed . |
| 12 | They were new shoes but already scuffed and dusty from the amount of walking he had done in the past few days . |
| 13 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 14 | Before an audience of 5,000 at the Royal Albert Hall , Harrison performed songs he had written over the past 25 years , and some Beatles classics . |
| 15 | He had seen the pose in several paintings in the churches and galleries he had visited in the past two weeks . |
| 16 | A Health Ministry report released on March 9 said that a further 21,772 Iraqis , of whom 8,081 were children under five , had died over the past two months from a shortage of humanitarian supplies [ see also pp. 38696 ; 38742 ; 38789 ] . |
| 17 | Of these , 25 chose to take no part in the farm work , 2 were over 70 years of age , 4 had died in the past five years , and 3 farmers were unmarried . |
| 18 | He said 87 people had died in the past two months — but that deaths occurring on the trek to the camp were not being recorded . |
| 19 | The ANC 's letter described it as inconceivable that the authorities lacked the capacity to stop the factional fighting , in which 1,200 people had died in the past seven months . |
| 20 | Amnesty International reported in July , however , that reprisals had continued against the civilian population , at least 50 of whom had died in the past two months . |
| 21 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
| 22 | Still trying to regain the imposing form he had displayed in the past days at Celtic and West Ham , there was a strong suspicion that McAvennie was past his prime . |
| 23 | The gangs had already been selected to work on the other three small coasters which had arrived over the past weekend . |
| 24 | He had been a bright student , but his work had deteriorated over the past year , and he had thoroughly deserved his poor marks . |
| 25 | According to the police , Fernandez told the investigating magistrates today he had trained for the past six months for the assault . |
| 26 | By 1922 the team of brilliant men who had governed for the past six years could not but see themselves as irreplaceable . |
| 27 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 28 | The head of Nicaraguan Army intelligence , Maj. Ricardo Wheelock , replied on Sept. 13 that military attacks from Honduran territory had increased over the past two weeks . |
| 29 | Fuel and Energy Miniser Yury Shafranik said that the waste of energy resources had increased over the past two years and that energy use had remained stable , despite falling production . |
| 30 | It was difficult to believe that the party had been so recent ; too much had happened during the past thirty-six hours . |