Example sentences of "past [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 2 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 3 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 4 | In the past few months he has sided with those in the party and the army who have long wanted a crackdown . |
| 5 | For the past few months it 's been more or less constantly at the limit — the £300,000 cheque put it unacceptably over . " |
| 6 | In the past few months it has become clear to Her Majesty that her own children have spectacularly failed in their duty to the Crown . |
| 7 | One hesitates over publicising these things for fear of sparking imitations , but you 're going to read about it somewhere so it might as well be here — over the past few weeks it has become clear that setting up telescopes to watch people tapping their numbers into automatic teller machines and then scavenging for discarded receipts bearing the account number is a really outdated way of defrauding banks and their customers — these days , you set up a bogus teller machine of your own and record the card details as the customer keys in the number : in the latest instance , a gang in Manchester , Connecticut set up a mobile teller machine in the Buckland Hills Mall Associated Press reports , sabotaged the other machines in the shopping mall to encourage people to use it , and later wheeled the machine away and debriefed it on all its card secrets , using the data to make up counterfeit cards which were subsequently used to withdraw cash from the accounts in the New York area ; moral — stick to machines you know . |
| 8 | Over and over again in the past few weeks he has shown himself to be leading a rudderless , aimless Government . |
| 9 | During the past few years she has been forced to endure : — A break-in at her home and the loss of £5,500 ; — A series of raids on her office which eventually prompted the company to move elsewhere in the town ; — Drunks breaking into the company headquarters to sleep off their drinking binges ; — Car theft and vehicle damage . |
| 10 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 11 | ‘ Over the past few years it 's been your petal frilly or your heart-shaped frilly . |
| 12 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 13 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 14 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
| 15 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
| 16 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 17 | In the past 12 months he has improved immensely to become one of the best in the world and to confirm Imran 's earlier forecasts . |
| 18 | As breeder and exhibitor of budgerigars for the past 12 years he finds the joke wearing thin , but it has n't dampened his enthusiasm for his hobby . |
| 19 | For the past 26 years he has worked in the offices at the Courtaulds Chemicals power station on the Spondon site . |
| 20 | Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art . |
| 21 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
| 22 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 23 | This is vintage Saddam : over the past 21 years he has swung between killing Iraqi Kurds and offering them more self-rule than the Kurds in Turkey , Iran or Syria can dream of . |
| 24 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 25 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 26 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 27 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 28 | A new one is made every year and for the past 25 years it 's been engraved at the same Birmingham workshop . |
| 29 | For the past ten years she has been teaching part time at Roedean and between 1987–9 she completed a part time M.A. at Sussex University in Northern Renaissance Studies . |
| 30 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |