Sentence examples for instructed past from inspiring English sources

In much the same way, half-breeds and "tragic mulatto" characters, created mostly by white artists, instructed past generations on the perils of transgressing racial boundaries.

Immensely popular with fellow writers, she is also loved and respected by the many young readers whom she has so richly entertained and instructed in the past.

Despite learning his trade as a coaching assistant with Barcelona, he has in the past instructed his teams to go there to destroy.

In the past, an operator instructed a computer and commands were performed.

Young listeners are instructed not to relive the past (particularly the 1960s, an implied swipe at the band's rivals the Jam) and don't lose yourself in drugs - the second verse is Strummer's rebuke to those who, he later explained, were "getting down on heroin at the time" rather than engaging with that "battle come down".

For a study on the influence of alcohol on sexual arousal, I clung desperately to my delusion while a lab assistant in ill-fitting khakis sat me behind a thin partition and instructed me to think of past erotic experiences for ten timed minutes.

He instructed me to walk past the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center that evening.

They were instructed to continue walking past the end of the path for a further 2 m and over to ensure that the walking pace was consistent throughout the task.

When David Cameron came into office, back in the hazy past of compassionate conservatism, he instructed the Office for National Statistics ONSS) to begin a £2 million project into measuring happiness.

In contrast, in past research, participants were generally instructed to couple movement to music.

All the kids from our estate were used in filming and I shall never forget a 20-strong wild bunch of us being marshalled and instructed to run at and past the camera – and later seeing the footage appearing on the TV.