Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] previously [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emotion stronger than any she 'd ever previously experienced welled up within her , and overwhelmed her . |
| 2 | Daly achieved instant super-stardom when , as ninth reserve and without a caddie , he got into the 1991 US PGA Championship at the last minute , and played like a God for four days on a course he 'd never previously seen to win it . |
| 3 | Normal or near normal renal function was classified as previously described as a plasma urea concentration of <14 mmol/l and plasma creatinine concentration of <160 µmol/l ; moderate renal dysfunction as that when concentrations were higher than those quoted above ; and severe renal dysfunction as that when renal dialysis was instituted . |
| 4 | Like most previously published research in this area , attention will be confined to primary school children aged between five and ten years . |
| 5 | In many cases it proved unrealistic to cast aside previously initiated electoral promises . |
| 6 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 7 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 8 | Two of us had already previously met , but we were nervous and shy and wary of each other . |
| 9 | As had always previously happened , they made an oral agreement followed by the seller giving to the buyers a ‘ sold note ’ which had on the back an exclusion clause . |
| 10 | On this occasion he effectively vetoed the possibility that Hoare might become Viceroy , on the ground that no Secretary of State for India had ever previously gone to Calcutta or Delhi . |
| 11 | ‘ In the six weeks of the Hornsey revolution ’ , wrote a student the following Christmas in Revelations — the Hornsey students ' paper-'I had more education than I had ever previously experienced . |
| 12 | Iran and Saudi Arabia had both previously refused to implement cuts [ see p. 39120 ] . |
| 13 | They are interpreted as hemipelagic sediments rather than turbidite flows as previously proposed : there was periodic terrigenous input into still or nearly still water . |
| 14 | Hsu had twice previously attempted to return to Taiwan but had been quietly turned away by officials nervous of the publicity a trial would attract . |
| 15 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |
| 16 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 17 | By means of an unprecedented policy of increasing its manufacturing efficiency through technology , and putting pressure on South Asia to export raw cotton , a trade which it had never previously engaged in , at the expense of calico , which was subject to high import duties , Britain was able to turn the tide against India , and later to flood that area with cheap cotton goods . |
| 18 | After the Bolshevik revolution and the creation of the Communist International in 1919 , most British Marxists were put into a situation which had never previously existed for any part of the British labour movement . |
| 19 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 20 | He asked for time to consider , but this was brushed aside and Nu , willy-nilly , became MP for Mergui , a place he had never previously visited . |
| 21 | In that case an advertising agency telephoned a transparency library with whom the agency had never previously dealt . |
| 22 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 23 | A naturally shy man , who does n't boast about his achievements , and had never previously agreed to any magazine interview , Zarei will not say who the winning runner was , and is reluctant to talk about the times he has put sportsmanship before victory , unless his motives are misinterpreted . |
| 24 | He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic . |
| 25 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 26 | Democrats also responded with incredulity when Thomas justified his refusal to comment on Roe v. Wade on the grounds that he had never previously discussed this historically significant decision during his entire legal career . |
| 27 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 28 | In modern linguistics , we are often told of our remarkable ability to construct meaningful sentences which we have never previously heard ; yet this is surely matched by our ability to absorb the social implications of an array of furnishing consisting of a combination which is not only almost certainly in some degree unique , but some of whose basic elements may also be new to us . |
| 29 | Many of Indonesia 's peoples , for instance , who have never previously seen Europeans , grow very little body hair , and all of it straight . |
| 30 | NINE-EIGHTEEN is the name of the Italian company which came to Ferndown for the British Women 's Open and sold designer golf shirts and T-shirts such as we have never previously seen , even in the tented village at The Open . |