Example sentences of "[pers pn] had previously been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I started my enquiries into our family history I was told that Mary Kell was two years older than George Webster and that she had previously been engaged to his elder brother who had died before they could marry . |
| 2 | They had previously been kept in an 80 gallon tank where the owner had rarely seen them . |
| 3 | Pupils themselves disliked the way that they had previously been divided from one another ; and although there had been considerable advances made in the early 1980s in running joint CSE/GCE courses and examinations , these were patchy and voluntary , and unlikely to have been acceptable to the more academic of those who had an interest in the outcome of the examinations , especially the universities . |
| 4 | Several weeks before reunification , Bundeswehr units started taking over former NVA bases and re-training NVA soldiers , before quietly slipping into West Berlin , from where they had previously been banned by the 1969 Four Power agreement . |
| 5 | However , after the general election the new government ended in May Iceland 's boycott of the negotiations , at which it had previously been represented in an observer capacity only . |
| 6 | It had previously been held in a lower court that a second computer had to be involved ( p 101 ) . |
| 7 | On occasions , wage pressure exploded in very sharp increases , especially where it had previously been compressed by incomes policies . |
| 8 | It had previously been known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) . |
| 9 | Hodder has published Lord Archer since Kane and Abel in 1979 — he had previously been published by Cape — and has all his fiction in print in Coronet paperback ; contrary to rumour , Coronet retains this backlist . |
| 10 | He had previously been released after serving 10 years of a 25-year sentence for heroin smuggling in the USA . |
| 11 | Wilson , of Low Moor , Darlington , told the court he had previously been told by police that the knife was not an offensive weapon . |
| 12 | When Ben was eventually found , in the Chapel House Estate , it was discovered that he had previously been looked after in a place called Jesmond . |
| 13 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |
| 14 | He had previously been arrested in May 1982 , when he was editor-in-chief of al-Yawm newspaper , and was held without charge or trial until he was released following an amnesty at the end of 1982 . |
| 15 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |