Example sentences of "had [prep] the past [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intensely provincial , Catholic and Nationalist environment within which the DHAC operated was not conducive to its kind of class-based , quasi-Marxist political rhetoric which would , ten years earlier , probably have unleashed a backlash that it would have found difficult to survive ; even the mild leftism of Stephen McGonagle had in the past made him an object of suspicion among Derry Catholics . |
| 2 | Yet , stirring at the back of her mind and insistently pushing its way to the fore , the ungovernable curiosity that had in the past led her into strange , sometimes dangerous but often exciting situations was threatening to override her common sense . |
| 3 | A third group were the ‘ Queen Bees ’ , virgin wives and often virgin mothers who had in the past persuaded a doctor to administer artificial insemination because of their husband 's impotence . |
| 4 | But it is unlikely — despite disclosure of business rules — that the less aware will not find themselves on a spectacularly high-risk syndicate which had in the past played safe . |
| 5 | But it is unlikely — despite disclosure of business rules — that the less aware will not find themselves on a spectacularly high-risk syndicate which had in the past played safe . |
| 6 | No doubt the jury would have been interested to hear that the victim had convictions for offences of dishonesty , and conceivably even more impressed ( though in law they would be wrong to be ) to learn that she had in the past tried to stab a policeman . |
| 7 | Some lesser American golfers , lured over by the open cheques that sponsors often have available , had in the past performed less than satisfactorily . |
| 8 | Since the 1950s and 1960s there has been a weakening of the norms of ‘ good ’ congressional behaviour which , by obliging most members to conform , had in the past helped to bring some order into the legislature . |
| 9 | Donald and I , children of an unhappy home , had in the past found strength and consolation in such very different masters of cruel family life as Sophocles and Samuel Butler . |