Example sentences of "he had previously been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hodder has published Lord Archer since Kane and Abel in 1979 — he had previously been published by Cape — and has all his fiction in print in Coronet paperback ; contrary to rumour , Coronet retains this backlist . |
| 2 | He had previously been released after serving 10 years of a 25-year sentence for heroin smuggling in the USA . |
| 3 | Wilson , of Low Moor , Darlington , told the court he had previously been told by police that the knife was not an offensive weapon . |
| 4 | When Ben was eventually found , in the Chapel House Estate , it was discovered that he had previously been looked after in a place called Jesmond . |
| 5 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 6 | He had previously been arrested in May 1982 , when he was editor-in-chief of al-Yawm newspaper , and was held without charge or trial until he was released following an amnesty at the end of 1982 . |
| 7 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |