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file past

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file past (someone or something)
[for a line or procession] to move past someone or something. The people filed past the coffin, looking sadly at the still figure inside. As they filed past, some wept openly.
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Mourners were to file past Solzhenitsyn's body at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow from 11:00 a.
His face still looks out from the Forbidden City and crowds file past his embalmed corpse in a mausoleum by Tiananmen Square.
Before the eyes of the audience standing on the forestage in front of the museum, overlooking a fountain that never plays, the curtain parts and tableaux vivants begin to file past.
 
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