Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | As chairman of the Pitcairn Island Fund , he believes that £2 million would be sufficient to buy Pitcairn a reasonably healthy , self-sufficient future , and he has spent the past two years trying , unsuccessfully , to persuade the British government to make some contribution . |
| 2 | The 64-year-old minister was nominated for the honour by colleagues at Walworth Methodist Church , south London , where he has spent the past 15 years campaigning tirelessly against racism and working to improve race relations within inner cities . |
| 3 | He 'd used the past tense . |
| 4 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |
| 5 | He glanced to his right and saw the handsome , leonine profile of the silver haired killer he had spent the past five years hunting down . |
| 6 | His hair was dishevelled , his beard had grown around his neck as if he had spent the past four months away from civilisation . |