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I think the only way to comfortably do it with English is to just expand it into explanatory sentences. "One of the copies she would make in the past," say. There's a scene in The Big Bang Theory that riffs on time travel tense being awkward when applied in a way perfectly consistent with English grammar rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irfgXDrCRLs