Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [prep] [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now er as you appreciate at the moment , mum or dad can teach son or daughter to drive er without any real training other than what they 've received in the past . |
| 2 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |
| 3 | Otherwise there 's going to be chaos there if they do n't stop now and look within themselves instead of all of this interfering in other countries which they 've done in the past . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not interested in what you 've done in the past . |
| 5 | What I 've done in the past , is erm , for file retrieve and then erm , on top of the original do a slash put and then enter , and that then gives me a sub-file . |
| 6 | We 're passed that now we 're trying to give people more direction , get them involved er this is the first year we 've able to do it in a sense , properly cos it 's been the first year , with all due respect to all the work you 've done in the past , we 've got five year tutors . |
| 7 | He p he pretends to forget about things that he 's done in the past , but the people of do n't forget what you 've done in the past . |
| 8 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 9 | ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin . |
| 10 | Well maybe they can like any other church was the an , or is , the Annual Church ge the Annual General Meeting and as John pointed out this morning of course , we look at what we 've done in the past . |
| 11 | But it 's what we 've done in the past . |
| 12 | Erm the forecast figure is our plan of getting to the end result , which is not the same thing , which is in a way it 's a bit like our overtime hours and some of the areas we said that we would spend X amount of hours in , in two months , we 've had to then change the shape of that and said we 'd have half of X over five months , so our forecast i is being done differently , cos they 've worked out the , the branch forecast quite significantly differently erm Jeremy went through , through most of th briefly most of the means of doing that this morning and it sounds a lot more sensible than what they 've done in the past . |
| 13 | It 's different to , to the way you 've seen in the past . |
| 14 | You 've said in the past that you thought the band stood or fell purely by your music , that your personalities had nothing to do with it . |
| 15 | We 've said in the past it 's been fifty percent full stop . |
| 16 | no that 's right , yeah , I mean , I , I 've said it , I do n't care , but er I 've said in the past that er , I think some of the reason me and Ann split up was , I mean she always used to say I never treated her right and all things like that , I did you know , and I do care for her , but a lot of the things was I never showed it because erm if anything bothered me I never know it showed and it did n't bloody bother me because I 'd resolved myself after Julie that I 'd never let anything bother me again |
| 17 | Well , at this stage of the season I 've said in the past that there 's lots of football to be played , and there still is . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |
| 19 | Erm I most of the tapes that I 've had in the past have been recorded mono , erm and I 've needed a little doohickey to turn the erm output into mono as well cos it 's awfully off-putting spending seven and a half hours with the stuff coming in through one ear only . |
| 20 | w better equipped to get out onto B R's mainframe computer systems , a and the problems that we 've had in the past with regards to Micromail ha should disappear . |
| 21 | We have n't opened the toilet block as yet , because if you remember that the Recreation Ground Committee , we 're opening it in the er after the school has started and shutting it before the school ends , so that we do n't have the problems of vandalism which we 've had in the past , hopefully . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't imagine you being even remotely interested in any daydreams I 've had in the past , ’ he said with a slight twist to his mouth . |
| 23 | Chairman , this is not what we , er , agreed before , and it seems to me that there 's been some re-thinking on this , and I hesitate to say that once again , er , members are trying to face all ways because they do n't want to upset somebody , but the policy that we 've had in the past , had total support at property , and it is , it is a policy that has worked . |
| 24 | ‘ Whatever problems you 've had in the past , remember that he loved you , and you loved him . |
| 25 | Whether this means high unemployment depends partly on how this work is distributed ; whether we keep the same working hours that we 've had in the past , for example , whether we work for as many years . |
| 26 | Ca n't you send them a bill for all the ones they 've had in the past ? |
| 27 | I do n't know how they will respond to my abuse in the chip pan after a few months ' use , but I think they will fare better than other brushes I 've used in the past . |
| 28 | We 've spoken in the past about the importance of the acoustic tone of an instrument ; the better the tone is at this point , the less work the pickups and amp have to do to produce that sound . |
| 29 | Honestly , David , I 've doubted in the past that you knew the meaning of the word — now I 'm sure of it ! ’ |
| 30 | But this simply underlines a point that psychoanalysis is , by the very nature biographical , thus historical point , er , historical methods to trace one 's actions and reports in the presents , present er , relation to those who they 've experienced in the past . |