Sentence examples for past picked from inspiring English sources

An owner of Barta Iso Aviation on Long Island, which sells corporate aircraft, Mr. Barta has in the past picked women up for dinner in a turboprop, then turned the engine off in midair just to test their nerves.

BBC2's Trust Me, I'm a Dealer picked up 1.6 million and a 9% share at 6.30pm and Saving Britain's Past picked up 1.1 million and a 6% share between 7pm and 7.30pm.

Just then, a friend who happened to be driving past picked him up and took him to hospital.

She says she had never been comfortable in suits, having in the past picked out an ill-fitting blazer or two from a thrift store, but she always wished she could look like some of the more polished candidates who showed up to interview for the same jobs.

A search through FlightRadar24.com, a website that tracks civilian and military aircraft via their transponders — and which has, in the past, picked up military surveillance aircraft — shows neither the P-8 nor the SU-27 over the Black Sea on Wednesday morning, when the Russian military says the interception occurred.

In the dim and distant past, picking the best stocks was just seen as being clever; now that skill is known as "alpha".

Although majors tend to be more flexible now than in the past, pick a major that leads to a job that you can imagine yourself enjoying long-term.

But you can't just stroll through the past, picking the things you like and skipping the ones you don't, as if historical eras were menus, and you could pick one from column A and one from column B. They are, rather, interconnected social, economic and political systems.

As the 24th pick in the 2007 draft, he came into the league with those back-half-of-the-first-round expectations: When it's past pick 20 your team thinks, "Well, this guy can certainly ball, and he'll maybe become the next, hell, J.R. Smith?

Today is a time to sell some of my past picks.

Today's stock is another one that I'm revisiting from my past picks.