2 tenses in 1 sentence

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Are there any sentence with 2 tenses ? Please give some example.
 

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Are there any sentence with 2 tenses ? Please give some example.
Many. Here are a few straightforward examples.

I haven't seen him since he moved to London.
If you say that again, I'm going to get annoyed.
I wish I hadn't said that.
 
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Thank you.
I usually hesitate when I have to tell a story happened in the past. I know that most of the tenses must be past tense. Can we say something in the story with present simple tense ?
 

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Thank you.
I usually hesitate when I have to tell a story happened in the past. I know that most of the tenses must be past tense. Can we say something in the story with present simple tense ?

Yes. This is the first example that came to my mind:

Yesterday I was at the park and I saw a som tam lady. I love som tam, so I bought some right away.
 

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I went to the park yesterday because it has been a very hot recently, as you know, and I fancied a walk.
 
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