Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early on , she demanded from each member a list of the people they had consulted during the previous three months . |
| 2 | The group sessions , which ran for 90 minutes each week , opened with the clients discussing what they had eaten during the previous week . |
| 3 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 4 | Following the August legislative and presidential elections [ see p. 39064 ] , the new Croatian government was sworn in on Sept. 8 ; seven ministers and one deputy prime minister retained the posts they had held in the previous government . |
| 5 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 6 | Power was slipping into the hands of important feudal vassals , and men like the rulers of Hyderabad in the south and of Bengal in the east were emerging with much more power than they had enjoyed in the previous half-century . |
| 7 | Half-a-dozen old retainers acted as anchor-men in the positions they had had in the previous cabinet . |
| 8 | These were the number accidents the driver reported having being involved in over the past five years and the number of near misses they had experienced in the previous year . |