Simple Past

Past Progressive

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Sami investigated Layla's past.

That is a little bit too early.

There is no past.

Going on 40, though...

Sami's past caught up to him.

My mother's past is already in the past.

I am not going back.

It's all past and done with.

Sami's past haunted him for ever.

My name now is Gaza Jad Madi

I don't care about this island's past.

Forever, a past of marble

Ben Katchor's comics of bygone New York

Explosives? Any history of violent conduct?

You're nothing but a thing of the past to that man now.

What sort of woman has such a complicated past?

No, because it's in the past, and nobody cares.

The girl, my old love, the last lost time I saw her when she came to find me at a party, her drunkenly stumbling, falling, sprawling, skirt hiked, eyes veined red, swollen with tears, her shame, her dishonor.

A few seconds more and it will finally be frozen forever, a past in marble

The rumours surrounding the crown prince, Yi Young.

Yet another downpour of bombs hit Jabalia, and then the tanks came in.

What explains Earth's past, its geological eras and its ancient creatures?

I'm going to show you some of the past of big technology.

I have a terrible past. For three years I've been living with a saxophone player.

And it's an idea that goes way back.

Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed.

Jordanian blogger Jad Madi, who describes himself as simply Middle Eastern, changed his name to Gaza Jad Madi today after discovering Facebook's alleged biases

Mr. Ibrahim Mohammed Madi quot Detained in the occupied Gaza Strip since 18 February 1993

He pries through every seaman's past like a judge at a quarter session.

The disadvantages included the lack of a clean break between Poland s authoritarian past and its democratic present.

The parties have clearly demonstrated that there can be no going back to the old days of conflict and confrontation.

We are also hopeful that such a declaration will review the past, assess the present and look to the future of the United Nations.

Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed.

Simpson is condescending and derisive and wildly wrong about important parts of the Social Security system's past.

Mr. Mohammed Najib Madi quot Detained in the occupied Gaza Strip since 15 October 1992

My guess is that there's nothing quite that specific in our evolutionary past.

I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities and horrors of Ukraine s history.

Therefore, many names from Peru s past are also present here Atahualpa, Pizarro, Sucre, Bolivar.

They record information that eliminates the need to read a long way into the log's past.

The city's past as a Soviet industrial center has left it as one of the most polluted cities in the world.

With all this data out here, it might be a good idea not to look too far into the past of those you love.

And here, scientists are drilling into the past of our planet to find clues to the future of climate change.