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past and was
he was long past the point of coherent thinking.
Setting a course straight for the house, he was covering ground fast when an angry bee buzzed past close to his face.
Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
His cause was to commemorate the glory of her past and to incite her people to perpetuate it in the present.
Heidenstam's conception, on the contrary, was to revive the present by the memories of the past.
It was well past midnight.
that their remote past is as discontinuous with their present selves, as lacking in any conscious likeness to their mature personality, as the self of a butterfly may be imagined discontinuous with that of the caterpillar it once was.
A week later the sentence of the Council was carried out: Jake Camaret and the woman were marched naked through the streets past a mocking populace.
Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.
He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.
It was full-of-the-moon ( or a little past ), and nearly light as day.
But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.
Instead of 3 a.m. in the past, the Juniors Class at Westminster was held at 4:45 p.m..
The relinquishing by philosophy of pretentious claims to empirical priority gives it an ability to treat problems of meaning and truth which in the past it was unable to examine because of its missionary attitude to knowledge of more humble sorts.
For what concerns all scientific disciplines is precisely that which can be captured for the rational, i.e., for the scientific determination of what in past ages was considered ultimate and irrational.
The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.
The ninth century was in its artistic work `` the spiritually freest and most self-sufficient between past and future '', and the loving skill spent by its artists upon their products is a testimonial to their sense that what they were doing was important and was appreciated.
The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.
If Depew had told any academic psychologist that he had a weird feeling of having lived through that identical convention session at some time in the past, he would have been informed that he was a victim of deja vue.
`` In the past anyone who said that 90% of all malocclusion is hereditary was scoffed at ; ;

past and case
The Eichmann case looked to the past, not to the future.
This effect may be understood as another case of custom or habit taking past experience and using it to predict the future.
Preterism ( from the Latin praeteritus, meaning " gone by ") is an approach which sees prophecy as chiefly being fulfilled in the past, especially ( in the case of the Book of Revelation ) during the first century.
What was acceptable in the past may no longer be the case.
By 1985, a case had not been heard of in the past twenty years whereas previously Albania had the greatest number of patients infected in Europe.
The term first past the post ( abbreviated FPTP or FPP ) was coined as an analogy to horse racing, where the winner of the race is the first to pass a particular point ( the " post ") on the track ( in this case a plurality of votes ), after which all other runners automatically and completely lose ( that is, the payoff is " winner-takes-all ").
Rosemary essential oil may have epileptogenic properties, as a handful of case reports over the past century have linked its use with seizures in otherwise healthy adults or children.
In a 1986 press release to the newspapers and leading magazines in Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the SPR retracted the Hodgson report, after a re-examination of the case by the Fortean psychic Dr. Vernon Harrison, past president of The Royal Photographic Society and formerly Research Manager to Thomas De La Rue, an expert on forgery, as follows: " Madame Blavatsky, co-founder of the Theosophical Society, was unjustly condemned, new study concludes.
While Vietnam has remained relatively conflict-free since its Cambodia days, tensions have arisen in the past between Vietnam and its neighbors, especially in the case of China since both nations assert claims to the Spratly Islands, an archipelago in a potentially oil-rich area of the South China Sea.
* On the outer level, the twelve links can be seen to operate over several lifetimes ; in this case, these links show how our past lives influence our current lifetime, and how our actions in this lifetime influence our future lifetimes.
The story of a phantom pie-thrower ( later revealed to be the detective on the case ) is repetitious and relying on the same jokes, which many Stooge fans consider to be far less humorous than their past work.
The reference point could be the time of utterance, in which case the verb expresses absolute tense, or it could be a past, present, or future time of reference previously established in the sentence, in which case the verb expresses relative tense.
This unexpected situation made a strong case for the desirability of studying a planet from orbit rather than merely flying past.
This case followed past instances in which McDonald's threatened to sue more than fifty organisations for libel, including Channel 4 television and several major publications.
Another related case is where stories are set in the near future, but with an explicitly allohistorical past, as in Ken MacLeod's Engines of Light series.
At some points in the past, one senate was considered more conservative and the other more liberal, but that is not the case as of 2011.
Such a huge statutory amount considered by the legislative organ is based on several extremely serious food quality incidents in the past two years, such as the notorious Sanlu tainted milk powder case.
This enables to dispense decoys or – in the past case of MIRV – dispense individual RVs to separate targets.
A Sumo wrestler would need to train in MMA techniques which has not been the case in the past, as the few sumo wrestlers of distinction to compete in MMA did so for financial reasons and not a career change.
Although the public didn't seem to care much about Thorpe's past, the Amateur Athletic Union ( AAU ), and especially its secretary James Edward Sullivan, took the case very seriously.
In any case, the show did not completely sever ties to its past, as many former cast members reappeared during the 1989 season in cameo roles, most notably in the " Age " episode, which was hosted by Vanessa Lindores and also featured cameos by Doug Ptolemy, Alasdair Gillis, Christine McGlade, and Kevin Kubusheskie ( who by that time had become a stage producer on the show ).
Today, the court case and transcripts are important to historians and forensic neurologists, because of the sworn testimony from multiple witnesses regarding Muybridge's state of mind and past behaviour.
Not all pedigreed cats are excessively inbred, however ; in the past, this was the case with some breeds, before the modern understanding of genetics was widely circulated.

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