Sentence examples for which were past from inspiring English sources

I begged them to come back, and when they did I offered them a few Jaffa Cakes, some of which were within their best before date and some of which were past it.

These foods are likely to support the growth of food poisoning bacteria or the formation of toxins and must not be stored above 8 C. Then in point six, the inspector writes "high risk foods were found on your premises which were past their use-by date".

Dinal Saldanha of Kulshekar alleged that the police used tear-gas shells which were past their expiry date on the premises, and that exposure to the gas resulted in problems with her eyesight.

I often feel quite down in the evening, which is past midnight in China, when my friends are offline.

Alice Coote was as convincing as anyone I have heard at conveying the solitariness of this final journey; the yearning for that which is past and that, as yet, unattainable.

As the hero of the comedy explains, that which is past, present, and future in the course of a boatman on a winding river exists in the same instant to an aviator flying overhead.

Nonetheless, confronting thirty years' worth of one's own work is likely to prompt elegiac reflection upon that which is past or grumpy complaint over that which has been lost.

In this, she took the same line as the 17th-century philosopher Francis Bacon, when he wrote that seeking revenge was a foolish exercise in self-destruction: "That which is past is gone, and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do, with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves, that labor in past matters".

The reflection on the days of difficulty and danger which are past is rendered the more sweet, from a consciousness that they are succeeded by days of uncommon prosperity and security.

(Where did he go?) And can you explain clearly why we use 'did' which is past tense of the verb 'do'do

The short position in the Dow 30 implies that the gurus think the Dow, which is past 13,500 now, has gone too far.