Example sentences of "who had previously [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Battle Brothers , who had previously fasted in the Solitorium , confronted one another in the Arena Restricta , a barrel-vaulted hall painted a rich deep Prussian blue chevroned with stylized blood-red lightning flashes . |
| 2 | The positive picture of British government began to lose its gloss ; academics who had previously written about the political system in positive terms now turned their attention to the problem inherent in that system . |
| 3 | Perhaps half of those who had previously voted for the middle-class parties now voted for the NSDAP . |
| 4 | Some MPs who had previously voted for the Exclusion Bill turned Jacobite , amongst them Sir William Whitlock ( a former member of the Green Ribbon Club ) and Edward Harvey ( though in the process they also became High Tories ) . |
| 5 | With many of the other leading generation engineers having taken positions as divisional controllers , he was difficult to replace , and responsibility as Pask 's deputy for generation thus fell to J. D. Peattie , an ex-CEB operations engineer , with little experience of the power station design side , and to other ex-CEB staff who had previously liaised with the undertakings on power station design . |
| 6 | The immediate costs to the United States would have been political , the main gainers being the major gold producers — South Africa and the USSR and those who had previously speculated against the dollar by demanding gold . |
| 7 | Sutton was later going to have to cope with marrying up this formula to the new direct-entry computer system , which was being sorted out by systems editor Eugenie Verney , a sub-editor made redundant from the Daily Express in Manchester , who had previously worked on the Guardian . |
| 8 | Meantime a small entourage travelled out to Compass Point to meet with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth , formerly of the weird and very wonderful Talking Heads , who had previously worked at the studio under the guise of Tom Tom Club . |