Sentence examples for past of from inspiring English sources

'past of' is not an accepted phrase in written English.
It is simply a shorthand way of expressing the concept of a past tense verb form. A better way of expressing the same concept would be "in its past tense form". For example, "The verb 'walk' is often used in its past tense form, 'walked'."

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Or the past of proto-metal?

"I know the past of everything else.

And the past of the Olympic movement.

"The colonial past of one Dutchman is the slavery past of another Dutchman," he said.

Ireland was a trip into the past of America.

The past of military confrontation is already past.

One does not want to romanticise the past, of course.

Lilliet is hiding a secret past, of course.

In Zaragoza today, the violent past of Spain seems remote.

That's a thing of the past, of course.

Meadows has made commercials in the past, of course.

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