Past Sentence Examples

They had to move forward, and leave the past behind them.

It was past midnight.

He brushed past her.

Don't look at the past so negatively.

Lisa brushed past Giddon without looking at him.

If I should attempt to tell how I have desired to spend my life in years past, it would probably surprise those of my readers who are somewhat acquainted with its actual history; it would certainly astonish those who know nothing about it.

But you must remember I'm old, and my dashing days are past and gone.

She stood, frozen with fear as his dark figure moved past her.

All your court has been looking for you for the past two hours.

He was right, to a degree It isn't the past that I'm pitching you, Alex.

She had to stop thinking about the past that way.

It was past one o'clock.

It was time to put the past where it belonged.

The birth of her child was imminent, if not past due.

That time which we really improve, or which is improvable, is neither past, present, nor future.

He had seemed amused by her modesty in the past, and yet it had obviously troubled him.

The troops again began to move, and two battalions of the Novgorod and one of the Apsheron regiment went forward past the Emperor.

It's the lessons we learned from the past.

Avoiding his eyes as she walked past him, she tried not to limp.

Doubtless the work of the past few months does seem like a triumphal march to him; but then people seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

All night long troops were moving past the inn.

Drive past Tatarinova, a lot of digging is going on there.

Maybe that was what made him such a good salesman in the past.

If you weren't appreciated, you wouldn't have made it past the first trip.

She led him first down the hallway where the gym was, pointing out the locker rooms and weapons room before taking him to the second floor to Jonny's wing and past her doorless room.

And as I look to the past and the present, I see two phenomena that especially drive my optimism.

Where?... he shouted to three infantrymen without muskets who, holding up the skirts of their overcoats, were slipping past him into the Bazaar passage.

What is it? he asked, but his comrade was already galloping off past Vasili the Beatified in the direction from which the screams came.

With the photos in her hands, the fertilized eggs were a thing of the past.

He stopped thinking about the past and his gaze seemed to come to the present.

You keep telling me it's in the past - until you can dig it back up and throw it in my face again.

If Katie hadn't disclosed that incident to her before she met Alex, would he have revealed that facet of his past?

In every mirror, dust obliterated her past.

On the other hand, she hadn't asked Len to look into Yancey's past.

His voice was soft, anger suddenly a thing of the past.

Allen was the past and Yancey the future.

Why go through all that pain again, when she had almost succeeded in putting him in the past - almost, but not quite.

A yellow ball of hissing fur flew past her.

My past is such an enigma; I don't know any of the details.

The article listed past instances of use, admitting on rare occasions the psychic proved helpful to police investigations.

I didn't get past the perfume counter.

Whoever the guy in the Blazer was, he gave Edith the look-see when he drove past Bird Song.

The area where the goats had been provided good grazing, but he was concerned about the wild dog problem she had experienced in the past.

I'm ready to forgive you, but we're never going to put this in the past if you keep up this farce.

He wriggled through the crowd to her, looking past her at the chasm and the woman sobbing beside it.

She felt the sudden urge to run again, as far as she could from her past, Talia's death, the bleak future of the White God and his Guardians.

But she let Jonny's words slide, as she did everything else he'd said to her the past few days.

He'd taken a few different vamps to his bed the past few days.

The Darian she'd left behind two weeks ago hadn't resolved his issues with his past.

With a complexion like hers, he was often mistaken as her brother, a similarity they'd used in the past to keep people from finding out she was Damian's mate.

The pregnancy had not been an easy one, especially not with the excitement of the past few months.

Darian has to leave his past behind, or we're all screwed.

They walked past Darian, with the Black God hesitating before continuing on.

She released a deep sigh, finger lingering on the names from her past.

You lost everything in the worst way possible yet you don't let your past cripple you like it does … others, she managed.

She couldn't help hurting for him, all too sensitive to the scars left by her own past.

I've treated you like shit the past few days.

I remembered them, she stumbled, unaccustomed to revealing her past.

I, too, had my guard pulled down by my past.

She stood where she was as Darian swept past her to the kitchen.

Only when he'd been broken and faced his past had he been able to let go of his own demons.

One night the king sat up very late, writing letters and sending messages; and the little page was kept busy running on errands until past midnight.

History is full of radical breaks with the past that only seem to have come out of nowhere but were, in fact, predictable.

I told my wife that I begged her to forget the past, to forgive me whatever wrong I may have done her, and that I had nothing to forgive.

It shouldn't be any surprise, since that was what suffered when he had been troubled in the past.

Could you see your past?

I queued my way past three minions before the stern voice growled, Reagan' in my ear.

He'd dropped twenty in the past six.

The woman directed her plea toward the Other and tried to push past Jule.

He looked past her.

She edged past him.

You ain't never poked around in my past and I've sort of kept my business close to the vest.

That's what they've been doing for the past three years.

But don't worry—Fitz is past history.

We can do nothing here without supplies and without more men to replace those that have died the past few weeks, Larry said, frustration in his voice.

She went to the window seat and stared past the old tree at the Farmstead, but it no longer beckoned.

Let go of the past and plunge in with me.

The chant no longer soothed the pain within her as she thought of her own past.

Damian, the White God, had tried to task him twice in the past few months.

In the past two centuries with very little technology, we've come from whale oil and wood to solar and nuclear.

It is consistent with all we know of the past, which is progress and prosperity.

After soaking two years and then lying high six months it was perfectly sound, though waterlogged past drying.

They had decided to be at the ball by half past ten, and Natasha had still to get dressed and they had to call at the Taurida Gardens.

At a quarter past ten they at last got into their carriages and started.

Nicholas, with a stern and serious air which showed that now was no time for attending to trifles, went past Natasha and Petya who were trying to tell him something.

After supper, over their cherry brandy, Rostov and "Uncle" talked of past and future hunts, of Rugay and Ilagin's dogs, while Natasha sat upright on the sofa and listened with sparkling eyes.

While they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight and motionless spread out before them glittering like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows.

The day before the count was to return, Sonya noticed that Natasha sat by the drawing-room window all the morning as if expecting something and that she made a sign to an officer who drove past, whom Sonya took to be Anatole.

With compressed and parched lips and dry fixed eyes, she sat at the window, uneasily watching the people who drove past and hurriedly glancing round at anyone who entered the room.

He was meeting Helene in Vilna after not having seen her for a long time and did not recall the past, but as Helene was enjoying the favors of a very important personage and Boris had only recently married, they met as good friends of long standing.

They rode through the village of Rykonty, past tethered French hussar horses, past sentinels and men who saluted their colonel and stared with curiosity at a Russian uniform, and came out at the other end of the village.

They had hardly ridden up a hill, past a tavern, before they saw a group of horsemen coming toward them.

He glanced with his large eyes into Balashav's face and immediately looked past him.

He was now concerned only with the nearest practical matters unrelated to his past interests, and he seized on these the more eagerly the more those past interests were closed to him.

Natasha's grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically.

One of the generals who drove past was an acquaintance of the Rostovs', and Petya thought of asking his help, but came to the conclusion that that would not be a manly thing to do.

Everything that reminded him of his past was repugnant to him, and so in his relations with that former circle he confined himself to trying to do his duty and not to be unfair.

Riding past the pond where there used always to be dozens of women chattering as they rinsed their linen or beat it with wooden beetles, Prince Andrew noticed that there was not a soul about and that the little washing wharf, torn from its place and half submerged, was floating on its side in the middle of the pond.

Believing their danger past, they sprang from their ambush and, chirruping something in their shrill little voices and holding up their skirts, their bare little sunburned feet scampered merrily and quickly across the meadow grass.

Pictures of the near past--her father's illness and last moments--rose one after another to her memory.

And these pictures presented themselves to her so clearly and in such detail that they seemed now present, now past, and now future.

Of late he had received so many new and very serious impressions--such as the retreat from Smolensk, his visit to Bald Hills, and the recent news of his father's death--and had experienced so many emotions, that for a long time past those memories had not entered his mind, and now that they did, they did not act on him with nearly their former strength.

Well, good-by, General, he added, and rode into the yard past Prince Andrew and Denisov.

At the descent of the high steep hill, down which a winding road led out of the town past the cathedral on the right, where a service was being held and the bells were ringing, Pierre got out of his vehicle and proceeded on foot.

All the gentlemen have gone out, and his Serene Highness himself rode past long ago.

It seemed as if those smoke clouds sometimes ran and sometimes stood still while woods, fields, and glittering bayonets ran past them.

To the infantry! added another with loud laughter, seeing the shell fly past and fall into the ranks of the supports.

When men were killed or wounded, when rows of stretchers went past, when some troops retreated, and when great masses of the enemy came into view through the smoke, no one paid any attention to these things.

And the order to retreat carries us past the turn to the Kaluga road.

Pierre lay leaning on his elbow for a long time, gazing at the shadows that moved past him in the darkness.

While the troops, dividing into two parts when passing around the Kremlin, were thronging the Moskva and the Stone bridges, a great many soldiers, taking advantage of the stoppage and congestion, turned back from the bridges and slipped stealthily and silently past the church of Vasili the Beatified and under the Borovitski gate, back up the hill to the Red Square where some instinct told them they could easily take things not belonging to them.

He did not know how or when this thought had taken such possession of him, but he remembered nothing of the past, understood nothing of the present, and all he saw and heard appeared to him like a dream.

Oh yes, mon cher, he is the greatest man of the ages past or future.

Maybe the dream is a good thing, a peek at the past?

None of us admitted to the possibility that the visions were real visits to the past.

Think of the possibilities if by the remote chance Howie is envisioning the past!

Do you think he's going back in the past?

I still won't buy these apparitions are trips to the past.

Could Howie really see scenes from the past?

Our inquiries are directed toward the accuracy of what you're seeing; did those scenes actually occur in the past.

Tell me you won't spy on our past!

Instead we speculated on what we'd personally do if we had this gift or curse and it proved to be a true trip to the past.

Imagine, not having a past.

I love you anyway and I've quit twisting your arm about trying to dig up the past.

You see, though I trust Aldo Benitez with my life, for good reason, he has endured a somewhat checkered past.

He's the only one who is a direct threat and that's due to our coming so close to getting him in the past.

I doubt it and Howie won't use his ability to revisit his past and learn.

It was past lunch time so the three of us dropped by The Main Street Café for a late lunch.

She'd located two promising missing children cases from the past forty-eight hours.

She moved past me to the living room with a plate of muffins and coffee.

That's all in the past.

Howie, I really feel for you but you've had this problem of not knowing about your past for a long time and you've managed to live with it.

This opened up an interesting gateway to Howie's past.

Maybe that tidbit will take his mind off this obsession with his past.

While he never owned up to it, Betsy and I knew he retained records of ventures into the deeper past, where Howie refused to go.

The unspeakable deeds of this animal who held us were well known to me, vicariously, through the notes of Howie's visits to his past.

After all, no one in history has ever been able to look into the past the way we do.

You could be there, for any events in your past.

All four trips brought him back several years in the past.

I could sense Howie's abhorrence at visiting his past.

We can address the issue of your past later when things have calmed down.

Little was said of our clandestine activities of the past year as we simply enjoyed each other's company.

Her words fueled the sense of dread he'd felt the past two weeks, since he'd lost contact with his closest friends.

She eyed it nervously, not wanting to venture past the safety of the bedroom.

She'd spent the past four hundred years in college, gleefully learning more and more and working out of the lab he'd funded for her.

Choppy scenes of the boy's past and future blinked into her thoughts.

It's gotta be well past midnight!

He looked at his watch, satisfied to see it was past dawn despite the storm-blackened sky.

His brothers weren't any closer than they had been, but the sound of their voices made him realize how alone he'd really felt the past two weeks.

You know what I've been doing for the past few months?

Jonny's brown eyes, now black, traveled past Dusty to Damian.

The hair on the back of his neck had been standing for the past mile he'd walked, only he wasn't entirely certain why.

His erratic moods had grown more volatile the past couple of days, and she knew better than to draw his attention.

His voice had calmed, and he started past her.

Jule slept past dawn then into midday.

Have you been there for the past two days? her father asked.

The vamp bowed his head and pushed past Jenn.

His face was drawn as he strode past Jenn.

They Transported to the mountainside again, and the cold wind swept past him.

The past few days had turned her beliefs on end.

He continued past her, up the hill once more.

I haven't been able to get you out of my cube for the past two weeks.

Her headache was now a migraine, and she shielded her eyes against the light from the street that filtered past her honeycomb blinds.

I couldn't get past his secretary.

I don't hold our past against you at all.

You will see my past.

Han eyed her as she hurried past him toward the library.

I've seen you around a lot the past couple of days.

Our European front has been growing progressively weaker the past hundred years.

She can't pick up anything past this point.

I'll check the records to see which Guardians rotated here from Europe from the past year.

Nope, though I've only let her past the barrier once.

The second traitor came soon after, a man whose past stunned her.

He'd not had to work too hard for confessions in the past thousand years, not after word of his cold, methodological skills leaked to the Guardians.

Furious, she stood and breezed past him, not surprised when he opted not to ride home with her.

Dean promised himself to keep driving past the building if the deputy Larkin's car was in evidence, but only the sheriff's vehicle was present.

I'm not sure I'd put it past him, slipping it into Billy's Jeep just so he could bust him.

He started to move past them but Dean blocked the way.

The gravel road led past a small subdivision, then a few individual houses and small but beautiful Lake Lenoir, before climbing into the open and leading to a beautiful panorama of the Uncompahgre Valley and the snow-capped mountains to the west.

Once past the open vista, the road deteriorated, dropping into the forest on federal land.

Dean left the cell confident that the old man was coping, but he was beginning to mirror Fred's concern with his past.

She had changed into a halter and shorts and brushed past him without a word.

We'd sort of made a pact that our lives began when we met each other so the past wasn't discussed much, if at all.

He's a mighty nasty fellow and if he was as mad as you say, I wouldn't put it past him to hurt her.

Then he smiled, no doubt remembering past times with David Dean—times he regretted similar words.

It was well past midnight when the Deans looked in on their sleeping guest before retiring themselves.

I'm not sure I'd put anything past Ms. Larkin.

As she watched Cora, Deidre began to think she'd missed a lot over the past few months despite trying to pay attention to the human world.

It was past dark, and she was dozing on the couch.

Show me the deals past-Death and my mate made with the Dark One within the past year.

But she remembered everything from the past twenty-six years.

Maybe Rhyn was right and the past didn't matter so much.

Forced into hiding by the circumstances of the past two weeks, Gabriel's yearning for his mate emerged stronger than ever at her passionate kisses and touch.

Gabriel had to let the past go.

He had no idea what she'd been through the past few days at the hands of Darkyn.

Your past is irrelevant.

You won't get past my demons this time, half-breed.

It had never been his intention to hide his past from Carmen.

Still, there were some things that would be better left in the past.

They continued up the hill, past the place where the wild dogs had broken through so long ago, and on toward the spring.

No wonder she went someplace where no one knew her past.

Maybe this man had a seedy past – or present, life.

That confidence had always been conveyed in conversation in the past.

If its contents were like the reports she'd seen in the past, it would be full medical nonsense.

At twenty-six years old, she must've done something pretty bad in a past life to deserve this.

You've lived on your terms the past few years.

Just like every other soul collector Gabriel sent out the past week, Harmony had gone on a mission and returned empty-handed.

He could see the Past and Present.

As much as she cared for him, he was driving her crazy the past few months.

It was past dusk, and bonfires were springing up down the beach.

What he used to be, before the events of the past year.

He reached out to rest a hand on her belly, as he did every time they met the past few months.

It was past dark, and she'd come to his cabin most nights for the past two months.

You couldn't get past the pictures, could you?

The past few months, I've come close to breaking it hundreds of times to keep the underworld from shutting down.

Somewhere along the past few months, he lost his way.

After all we've been through together the past few years, you should've been an open book.

Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.

Deidre moved past him timidly, expecting him to attack her.

I am the same friend you've had the past few years.

He's helped me through a lot over the past few years.

No reassurance he'd be able to get past their history, no expression of wanting to be with her.

I've eliminated innumerable enemies of yours the past few years.

You were a helluva lot easier to bed in your past life.

Deidre didn't expect to see it, not after how he'd treated her the past few days.

Neither, he decided, was his past.

He'd spent the past three nights in bed with another woman after completely destroying her whole world!

It felt good to laugh after the events of the past week.

Whatever happened to him over the past few days, he was no longer willing to walk away or back down.

You are now everything I wished you were in a past life.

The deity you were in a past life started the chain of events that put us here by breaking laws from the time-before-time.

He led her past closed doors and through hallways carved out of black stone.

Only the long-dead Oracle possessing the book and the deities could see the Past, Present, and Future.

There were pictures on her mantle of the two of them together when he was younger, toys piled into a box near her couch, a school lunch menu and more pictures -- these apparently from past Halloweens --on the bulletin board on one wall of the kitchen.

McGillen's, like you have for the past few months.

I have a feeling you know already what the past two days have been like.

It's been calm for the past few hundred years, but I don't think any of us have forgotten that five hundred year period where we were at each other's throats.

Jade stormed out of the study and shoved past two warriors in the hallway.

He held out an arm she ignored, instead marching past him.

She nearly leapt past her escort when he entered the banquet hall, the scents of roasted meat and a million other things making her stomach roar.

Katie looked past him, gasping.

She'd lived through too much the past few days to be eaten by some boogeyman in a dark cell!

He stalked past her, his anger palpable.

He stared past her.

The sand in the hourglass had begun to fall faster the past two days.

She'd grown up never having seen death, and in the past week, she'd seen it in its most gruesome forms.

She reached the top of the stairs and stared at a similar scene leading past the Arch and all the way up the park toward the city.

Rhyn shoved past Kiki into a small courtyard.

There were more buildings past the hallway to her right.

Katie trailed the fit woman through the hallway, past her room, and down a second corridor.

I've gotten so many…marks…the past couple of weeks.

Daniela cried, and flew past her toward the rocks.

They crossed through a common area with a kitchenette and large, flat-screen TV, past a gym, a library, and a few other common rooms, and into the barracks area, which bustled with activity.

She wouldn't put it past him.

Hannah's eyes widened, and she rose, angling her past the butler and a maid dusting a painting to the second floor.

She frowned and he breezed past her, pulling the door open before the woman on the other side could knock.

Maybe that's all in the past.

I.ve done almost everything you asked me to the past few weeks.

She started past him.

Kris strode past him and led him through the castle's ground floor, whose wide, carpeted halls felt nice on his paws.

He.d heard these words more than once over the past few days and couldn.t help the small part of him that agreed.

She couldn.t eat, feeling more stressed than she had in the past three weeks.

The maid turned, looking past her, and Katie spun away.

Rhyn.s voice made her heart skip a beat, and she craned her neck to see past Jared, who whirled.

The healers moved to the other side of the Immortal world, past Elisia and closer to Hell.

I have to check on Toby, she said and moved past him before she changed her mind.

She.d been acting squirrelly the past two days.

Katie gasped and flattened herself against the wall as they soared past them.

Darkyn strode past him, and Jade bowed his head again.

Romas had tossed her in bed more than once over the past three months, though he had stopped lecturing her on how unbecoming a lush was to a man looking for a wife.

Evelyn had been so happy the past few months, and having Romas around was not that bad.

She'd known Evelyn since they were in elementary school, and she'd been renting a room from her for the past two years since graduating high school.

Her plan, while brilliant when plotted the past month, didn't seem quite so wonderful right now.

All she had to do was choose the color she wanted to wear-- black for the past several days in silent objection to her presence aboard the ship-- and the ship's computer wove it for her.

She leaned to see past Romas and saw that the tent before her was only the head tent.

They cast several glances her way and appeared as interested in her as they were in looking past her.

He pushed her past him and joined in the conversation.

Kiera offered a smile and hurried past them, heart pounding and face red with embarrassment.

A startled cry drew her attention, and she leaned to see past him.

They couldn't have been past thirteen but rivaled her in height.

In the past three days, he hadn't made a single change before releasing the plans to his battle commanders.

She felt tears in her eyes at the small reminder of her past life and hugged the gifts to her chest.

It was past dark fall when she finished, and she gazed at her last sketch, intrigued by it.

She heard the runner before she saw him and watched as one of the warriors breezed past her toward Ne'Rin.

He started past her, then paused, returning to her side to remove the translator from her ear.

In the past few days, he'd learned just how unready he was to be the lifemate of his own nishani.

The battle waged just past the next range.

It was past sunrise, so she rose and flung off her bed covers.

Evelyn removed the obstacle from the door and snagged the tarantula cat as it darted past her.

Despite the piercing gaze she'd never quite gotten used to, she stepped past Jetr and looked up at her mate, taking him in breathlessly once again.

Now that you're past forty and bordering on geezerdom, you're beginning to sound like a dirty old man.

This here was a boarding house, at least at one time in the past.

It's past my bedtime anyway.

Has he hurt you in the past?

Dean's past involvements with Sheriff Weller had always managed to cause the lawman untold grief.

While the two maintained mutual respect, Jake Weller appeared unsettled in Dean's presence, a combination of insecurity over Dean's more extensive experience and memories of past encounters that had pushed the lawman into compromising situations.

Dean tried to picture the bustling town of a century past, at one time home to a dozen saloons, four restaurants, a newspaper, nearly three hundred houses and more than a thousand inhabitants.

By 1913, the post office was closed and the town had dwindled to two dozen remaining souls, and before long, it was left to indigenous wildlife and the spirits of a boisterous past.

As they passed the plowed pullout for the cutoff to Engineer pass, they were reminded of the past June and their mountain-camping honeymoon, up this road and into Poughkeepsie Gulch.

After all, every occasion in the past when he'd gotten in deep do-do with the sheriff, it was for holding back information.

You know and I know Fred's past is his business.

The winter season precluded the front porch rocking chair conferences of last summer and since the past autumn the group's confabs had been replaced with side-of-the-bed meetings in the Deans' quarters.

She looked past David Dean to his wife.

At Ryland's urging they crossed the bridge past the area where the main activities of the ice festival were being assembled for the weekend.

Instead I ambled past the house where I am to trade a damp and soiled mattress for domestic duties when arrangements are finally made by Joshua.

I just wish she had been able to escape and draw a curtain on her past like Fred O'Connor and move into a secure and happy life.

Well, I'm sure Fred wasn't a hooker but I'm content to accept him on a present day basis, regardless of why he's so protective of his past.

You must have wondered about Fred's past at times.

At some point his past may crawl out of the ground and bite him on the butt, but it won't be because I did the digging.

He hesitated, reluctant to return to his room, past Ryland's door from which might be expelled the naked visitor, just as he passed by.

They glided past snow-covered fields and occasional farmhouses, drifting smoke from their chimneys skyward and adding a hint of wood smoke to the crisp winter air.

Dean took this to suggest Annie's true past remained a secret to the sharp-tongued woman.

Dean took off at a run, past more gawkers staring over the edge.

It's all past us.

The past half-year was the best six months of his life.

Dean realized from his past experience that being forthcoming and subjecting himself to interrogation without an attorney was naive but the entire idea of his trying to kill Shipton was so ludicrous in his mind, he tended to minimize the seriousness of the situation.

First and foremost was an overwhelming urge to punch his lights out but past similar responses hadn't produced positive results.

If Shipton let her know he knew all the dirt on Annie's past, that might throw a kibosh on the whole business.

It was after eight, long past his usual wake-up time.