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"past" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

past sustantivo

past + verbo
Kolokacji: 6
past comes • haunted by one's past • past makes • past includes • past influences • ...
verbo + past
Kolokacji: 41
know about one's past • forget the past • remember the past • reveal from the Welsh past • confront one's past • ...
frequent collocations
Kolokacji: 8
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 8
(1) know, celebrate, live, remind
Kolokacji: 6
(2) forget, remember, reflect, connect, relate, ...
Kolokacji: 7
(3) reveal, learn, tell, explain, discover
Kolokacji: 9
(4) confront, face, lie
Kolokacji: 3
1. confront one's past = stawać twarzą w twarz czyjś przeszłość confront one's past
2. face one's past = twarz czyjś przeszłość face one's past
  • Turkey must face its past in order to have a bright future.
  • The city is still in the process of facing its past.
  • "Facing your own past and memories is universal," she said.
  • Some Polish intellectuals say the country has started to face its past.
  • I wanted you to come here to face your past, also to make a sort of peace both for yourself and my mother.
  • Maybe someday they would be forced to face their shared past.
  • Now, like it or not, the time has come for Cambodia to decide whether to face its past.
  • It is she who encourages him to return to Cuba in 2001 to try to face and understand his past.
  • I only wanted you to face your past and deal with it.
  • The moment that he is able to feel love again, he also finds the power to face his past (which isn't pretty).
3. lie about one's past = kłamać czyjś przeszłość lie about one's past
(5) change, happen, hide
Kolokacji: 3
(6) emerge, escape
Kolokacji: 2
(7) discuss, speak
Kolokacji: 2
(8) investigate, ask, delve, overcome, take, ...
Kolokacji: 9
adjetivo + past
Kolokacji: 125
recent past • distant past • glorious past • troubled past • ancient past • criminal past • long past • dark past • industrial past • ...
preposición + past
Kolokacji: 16
about one's past • in the past • from the past • into the past • through one's past • ...

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