Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] the previous [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year Mrs Curdle asked to see how the previous year 's bouquet had worn , so that the doctor and his wife were in honour bound not to destroy these offerings . |
| 2 | This year it was ever-reliable Tony Humphries who shifted the club world on its axis and demolished the Sound Factory Bar by creating an hour-long mega-mix out of a tune he 'd picked up the previous week during one of his periodical spinning visits to Switzerland . |
| 3 | She began to see why the previous nurses had all thought him worth chasing after . |
| 4 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 5 | Exactly one week later , on 5 April 1988 , the Colemans arrived back in Nicosia , moving into an apartment just vacated by Ibrahim El-Jorr , the Lebanese-American DEA informant whom Coleman had met briefly the previous year and who was now to be his co-worker in Operation Dome , reassessing the Lebanese narcotics trade at the start of a new opium-growing season . |
| 6 | Moreover , he would have been putting back pretty well all he had drawn out the previous year … |
| 7 | When he had reached home the previous evening , she had gone to bed . |
| 8 | He had arrived there the previous day and was still at the castle . |
| 9 | All the other guests had arrived there the previous day . |
| 10 | The reform was designed to reduce the linguistic tensions in Belgium , which had brought down the previous Martens coalition in 1987 [ see pp. 34892 ; 35489 ] . |
| 11 | My reason for not signing the petition was quite clear : when I had spoken out the previous December not one other international , nor the IAC , had raised a peep when our sport was being vilified . |
| 12 | The last one 's meat had run out the previous day and if the new one 's meat was not salted within a day or two , there would be no pork or bacon for at least a month . |
| 13 | The officer in charge went forward to check that all was well and with a Permanent Staff Instructor laid out the electrical initiation cable and applied the detonators to the ring main they had fitted up the previous afternoon . |
| 14 | But as they made their way towards the camp he had spoken only to point out signs of bird and animal life that he thought might interest her ; in the mud at the riverside , he showed her the pug mark of a tiger that had drunk there the previous evening and at another point on the trail he drew her attention to torn-up grasses and leafless trees that marked the passing of a herd of elephant . |
| 15 | However , it was also reported that Neamy was an Iraqi dissident who had lived in Sweden for several years and had returned home the previous year to pay a brief visit to his family . |