Many people said Marilyn Monroe never escaped her past.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Bourke-White was no longer satisfied just to show the products of industry in her pictures, as she had in the past.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Georgiana's past lovers used to say that the hand of a magical fairy had touched her face when she was born.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

She says the government has provided books for her school only one time during the past few years.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

She says her students over the past several years have increasingly used less formal English in their writing.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

A bird with broad white wings and a long slender neck flew past Sylvie and landed on a pine branch below her.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Then,she walked downstairs past her brother and mother, got on her horse and rode away.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

Mr. Mindon walked quickly past the ballroom where his wife danced with her friends.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

Mister Mindon walked quickly past the ballroom where his wife danced with her friends.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

Thirty thousand people walked silently past her body to show their respect.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Johnson says that her students, over the past several years, have increasingly used a more informal English vocabulary in formal assignments.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

But now,he says,if he gets anything, like money,he will give it her to help her forget what happened in the past.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

She moved from butterflies to biochemistry, and her research over the past three decades has revolutionized the study of skin and skin diseases.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

But she said she still faces hostility. If she brushes past somebody in a bus, she is told to go back to her country.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

She is on trial for violating the terms of the house arrest under which the government has held her for 14 of the past 20 years.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25