Example sentences of "[verb] [art] previous [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The £11 million fetched by the Turner trumps the previous highest price for a work by British artist : in 1990 Constable 's The Lock went to a Swiss collector for £10.78 million . |
| 2 | Young Neil , British youths indoor champion in the pole vault , was in sparkling form soaring to a winning height of 4.40 metres , smashing his own championship record in the intermediate boys event by a massive 70cms to demolish the previous best of 3.70 metres . |
| 3 | This eclipsed the previous best sale achieved by the magazine with the Wales Centenary issue of October 1980 by some 23,000 . |
| 4 | The RAF can thus boast that it has held England 's try-scoring record since 1921 , the year Lowe broke the previous best . |
| 5 | The Community 's leading economic indicator , combining calculations for both output and outlook , dropped to 96.1 in December , from 96.3 in November , to equal the previous lowest level registered in October 1982 . |
| 6 | Sumawe , who had a previous best of 2:15:26 and was an early Berlin pacemaker until a lace came loose , was then overhauled by the Soviet Muhamed Hamat Nazipov ( 2:14:04 and $9000 ) and Mohammed Salmi , an Algerian run over in last year 's race ( 2:14:19/$7000 ) but the Tanzanian 's 2:14:22 was also inside Jan Hurak 's previous 2:14:30 record . |
| 7 | It will be the city 's biggest Rugby League gate , beating the previous best of 6,800 when Hetherington 's men beat Widnes at Bramall Lane in 1989 . |
| 8 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |