Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [art] previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 2 | I would sing to myself , perfectly content to be alone in my own dream world , imagining myself on television receiving an award for beating a world record and I would see my name and picture in the ‘ Guinness Book of Records ’ on the high bookshelf in my brother 's room where I could not reach it , and yet , through all those mornings of endless riding round the yard , I never once counted just how many times I had ridden around to see if I had beaten the previous morning 's record , so sure was my conviction of success ! |
| 3 | I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now . |
| 4 | He also ordered a meal of succulent roast capon cooked in rich sauces and freshly baked loaves of pure wheat rather than the coarse rye bread I had eaten the previous months . |
| 5 | He brought with him , among others , the new Communist Transport Minister , Charles Fiterman , whom I had met the previous week . |
| 6 | Citing the case of one of the juveniles whom I had encountered the previous week : |
| 7 | But unlike the mink I had filmed the previous year , this one appeared not to be very active . |
| 8 | It is this ‘ spatial ’ potential of colour — what Riley refers to as plastic — which has superseded the previous emphasis on the chromatic ; colour serves to counteract the potentially conflicting space of the oblique construction . |
| 9 | Chain had overcome the problems which had defeated every previous experimenter with penicillin , but only on a small scale . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But this layout seemingly only lasted a comparatively short time , before it too was swept away , together with the buildings which had survived the previous changes and the fort defences . |
| 12 | Rajiv Gandhi , the 46-year-old Congress ( I ) party president and former Prime Minister , was assassinated in southern India on May 21 , while campaigning in the general election which had started the previous day . |
| 13 | A general election held in Bangladesh on Feb. 27 was dominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) and the Awami League , both of which had boycotted the previous elections held in March 1988 [ see pp. 35835-36 ] . |
| 14 | She had n't mentioned that she 'd paid a previous visit to the house . |
| 15 | ‘ But you did spend the previous day with the King ? ’ |
| 16 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 17 | Mrs Redmond talked about Bridie 's babies , whom she had seen the previous day , and asked Anne about her grandmother . |
| 18 | Despite her alleged impatience to hear about his experiences during the pay-off , she made no attempt to refer to it again , launching instead into a blow-by-blow account of a film she had seen the previous evening , going on to explain that she loved films , really loved them , that the only place to see them properly was the cinema , that her favourite was a wonderful old place in the centre of town called the Minerva , and what a shame it was that no one went to the cinema any more . |
| 19 | In January 1916 , six months before he met O'Keeffe , 3 Stieglitz saw examples of the charcoal drawings she had made the previous autumn and exclaimed : ‘ Why they 're genuinely fine things — You say a woman did these — She 's an unusual woman — She 's broad-minded , she 's bigger than most women , but she 's got the sensitive emotion — I 'd know she was a woman — Look at that line . ’ |
| 20 | Julia was so interested in the cross-examination that she almost disobeyed Anthony 's instructions to go back to the Campo San Maurizio for lunch and spend the afternoon in bed , but , remembering how weak she had felt the previous evening , she did as he said . |
| 21 | Shafts of sunlight gleamed through the avenue of trees , warming the air so that she felt no need to wear the jacket she had brought with her as a precaution against the temperamental nature of Danish weather , holding it casually instead over one arm , perfectly comfortable in the same linen dress she had worn the previous evening . |
| 22 | In daylight Folly could really appreciate details of the luxury she had missed the previous evening . |
| 23 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 24 | She had spent the previous evening at Ragamuffins nightclub in Camberley , Surrey . |
| 25 | Dalgliesh thanked her and told her that she could go home as soon as she had checked with Detective-Sergeant Reynolds in the library that he had all the necessary information about where she had spent the previous evening . |
| 26 | She had spent the previous day helping Janet to prepare Aunt Emily 's room for her mother . |
| 27 | She had had no previous treatment for any emotional difficulties . |
| 28 | In essence it was simpler than what she had suggested the previous night ; but the details were far more involved . |
| 29 | She had left the previous night without speaking to him , without giving him the chance to say how sorry he was . |
| 30 | It seems reasonable to ask , though , why a side who had gone the previous 42 games undefeated , were allowed to spend such a relatively undemanding afternoon in the company of a team who ought to have harboured more serious intent than was ever evident . |