Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Baxter had already made his position clear when he stopped preaching the previous May soon after the Act had received royal assent . |
| 2 | Apparently he 'd called the previous evening and been surprised I was n't there . |
| 3 | The only stains left on his hands were a few stubborn traces of India ink , left from the drawings of Sara he 'd finished the previous day . |
| 4 | Pete Woodward got one of the dead centres and he felt he 'd erased the previous day 's disaster . |
| 5 | Stalin wanted Germany permanently crippled and partitioned , with massive reparations , but with the knowledge of what happened following the previous Great War , the others disagreed . |
| 6 | But Kambli did beat the previous highest made against England by an Indian , Gundappa Vishwanath 's 222 in 1981-82 . |
| 7 | But all the jollity does n't totally obscure his illegal activities ; Lovejoy did begin the previous series with a spell in jail . |
| 8 | ‘ But you did spend the previous day with the King ? ’ |
| 9 | The senior Dutch officer ordered them to extend the territory they occupied to double the previous area . |
| 10 | They warned him with veiled threats against mentioning anything that he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 11 | Alan thought of the little scene he had witnessed the previous night . |
| 12 | In truth this troupe did not receive the idolatry that his juveniles had aroused the previous year , but they must have pulled up their silk stockings because when they went on tour later one reviewer did describe them as : |
| 13 | Price , of Zimbabwe , shot a cautious second round 68 and was surprised to hear he had broken the previous record set by Mark O'Meara and Steve Jones in 1987 . |
| 14 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 15 | Moreover , throughout the year the particular day of the week on which Innocents ' Day had fallen the previous year was also regarded as a black-letter day , and was also called Innocents ' Day . |
| 16 | The French , probably over-confident of victory , allowed themselves to be drawn into a cavalry advance , carried out under a hail of arrows , across recently ploughed ground made softer yet by the rain which had fallen the previous night . |
| 17 | When someone there recognised Seb as the jockey who had won the previous year 's race at the Wychwood Forest Fair it created a sudden surge of interest and betting became very much brisker . |
| 18 | Indonesia had dissolved the previous forum , the Inter-Governmental Group on Indonesia ( IGGI ) , in March after accusing the Netherlands ( which chaired the IGGI ) of using the issue of aid as a tool for interfering in Indonesian internal affairs . |
| 19 | It was Sunday , and Yanto had enjoyed the casual breakfast with his Mother , something he rarely had time for during the working week Their chat during breakfast had revealed to him that his Mother had enjoyed the previous Friday evening out with Sid Watkins and would probably see him again . |
| 20 | Corbett sat on the same bench he had occupied the previous Sunday watching the nuns file in . |
| 21 | On March 28 Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , 58 , who had resigned the previous day as Army C.-in-C. , announced that he would be joining the government as a Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Defence , ending widespread speculation about his political plans . |
| 22 | Her father , whom she adored , had collapsed the previous September with a cerebral haemorrhage and had lain in a coma in the National Hospital in Queen Square , London , for nearly four months . |
| 23 | Father Paddy had rung the previous day to give them the news from Rosstrevor . |
| 24 | He brought with him , among others , the new Communist Transport Minister , Charles Fiterman , whom I had met the previous week . |
| 25 | Thus , The Times of 17 December 1990 reported that a group of 40 of the most senior Civil Servants had met the previous weekend to discuss ‘ ways in which the government machine could respond better to national and international problems such as the threat of global climate change ’ . |
| 26 | The reins were in one piece ; no one had noticed the previous time , he 'd been able to make an extra hole and buckle them . |
| 27 | Corbett , remembering all he had seen the previous night , was more wary of Thomas : the evil he had experienced in that hut was nothing to take lightly . |
| 28 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 29 | Two girls sat down to make a picture together of the river they had seen the previous day . |
| 30 | Mrs Redmond talked about Bridie 's babies , whom she had seen the previous day , and asked Anne about her grandmother . |