Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the regular attenders were there : the Yorkes , glossy as newly-painted furniture ; the Fords , sending darting glances round the congregation to see if anyone was missing ; the Shergolds , sitting in their usual place near the door in the pew where Melissa had come upon Eleanor the previous day , Rodney with his normal air of self-importance that might or might not be hiding an inner anxiety , his wife pale and twitchy as she pulled off her gloves to turn the pages of her hymnbook . |
| 2 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 3 | Whatever Michael Banks had done with Lesley-Jane the previous evening — and something in their manner towards each other suggested he had done something — it had not improved his grasp of the lines . |
| 4 | It was a happy debut for the latest model to drop off the fast-bowling conveyor belt ; Patrick Patterson had played for Lancashire the previous summer without making much impression , but now on his home patch with the sun on his back he hit Test cricket with a bang . |
| 5 | He said the Danakil had killed some Greek traders who had ventured into Bahdu the previous year . |
| 6 | The Soviets , who had arrived at Heathrow the previous evening , were taken to Twickenham to train and practise , and it was there that their assistant manager Douglas Kavtalashvilli made the offer . |
| 7 | I knew the last 10 minutes would be nervous both for the fans and the supporters , as had happened against Oldham the previous week . |
| 8 | In the fruit bazaar in Khorramshahr , an Iraqi Shia claimed that he had fought in Basra the previous night . |
| 9 | Among the guests were , whose husband had returned to America the previous day ; , and I met my host and hostess 's charming son the Hon. |
| 10 | Paul Devraux had returned to Saigon the previous evening with the hides of buffalo , banteng , seladang cows and calves and a dozen smaller deer , to organize their shipment to the United States . |