Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 2 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 3 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 4 | As soon as she reached the club , as soon as she was back in the public eye , she would have to switch on the false persona that had carried her through the past week . |
| 5 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 6 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 7 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 8 | ‘ What a pleasure it has been , and an honour to have been MP for Winchester for 13 years , ’ he said , thanking those who had supported him in the past year . |
| 9 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 10 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |