Use "preterite" in a sentence

1. [Footnote 1: #mostrara# has here the force of a preterite indicativetense, as often in Old Spanish

2. {51-2} ocurriera has here the force of a preterite; cf

3. preterite to express an act that occurred recently

4. This use of the preterite asequivalent to a perfect in speaking of recent events is not sufficientlynoted

5. He would have been the last man to devote his life to the Greek preterite, and to question whether it would not have been better to have confined himself to the dative case! Such minutiae of erudition might be fascinating to others; it was not for him