Example sentences of "had [vb pp] the past [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why raise the subject now , just when she wanted to get back to her own office to quell the bewildering inner turbulence which had disturbed the past few minutes ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was as though she had spent the past twenty-two years imprisoned in a shell , and had now broken free of it , and was tasting sensations which she had never dreamed possible . |
| 4 | At the reunion I mete a friend who had spent the past seventeen years teaching Russian in the services . |
| 5 | His hair was dishevelled , his beard had grown around his neck as if he had spent the past four months away from civilisation . |
| 6 | All the greatest journalistic intelligences in the business , who had spent the past few weeks travelling around with their ears to the ground , confirmed it . |
| 7 | He had spent the past few months noting down all the sightings and rumours of the Bookman 's movements . |