Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] early in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 2 | At least , she decided approvingly , dressed now in sharply creased fawn trousers and dark brown casual shirt in fine wool beneath a soft leather jacket , he appeared less of the savage she 'd encountered earlier in the day ! |
| 3 | Political leaders from across the assembly had resolved earlier in the week that an apparent lacuna in the rulebook which gave the neo-fascists the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship of the delegations should be filled so that the pair could be voted out of their posts . |
| 4 | President Frederick Chiluba faced a growing crisis when two Cabinet ministers who had resigned earlier in the month took part in launching on July 25 of a new party , the Caucus for National Unity ( CNU ) . |
| 5 | Two of the remand cases had featured earlier in the year at the search stage . |
| 6 | It did n't feel as cold as it had done earlier in the day . |
| 7 | He denied any guns had been involved in the raid although Mr Beaton had said earlier in the trial he had been told he would be shot if he tried anything stupid . |
| 8 | For no reason Jack remembered something that girl Benny had said earlier in the day . |
| 9 | ‘ Not much use , these blackouts , ’ Tom had said earlier in the evening . |
| 10 | He observed that the economy had expanded steadily since 1981 , and repeated something that Kenneth Baker had said earlier in the week : that there was ‘ no precedent for eight years of sustained growth ’ . |
| 11 | In that moo , Jinny caught an echo of the bellowing noise Florence had made earlier in the year when they took her calf away . |
| 12 | He opened the freezer and helped himself to a cold beer and the last of the chicken drumsticks from the packet he had bought earlier in the week . |
| 13 | Walking around Urbino 's quiet streets on a wet Sunday out of season was an evocative and fascinating experience , even though the churches and palace had closed early in the morning . |
| 14 | When the charter to Maryland sought by George Calvert passed the Great Seal on 20 June 1632 Cecil Calvert was named the grantee , since his father had died earlier in the year . |
| 15 | Arne Treholt , 49 , who had been sentenced in mid-1985 to 20 years ' imprisonment for espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union and Iraq [ see p. 34113 ] , was pardoned on July 3 on health grounds ; his second wife had died earlier in the year and he was reportedly suffering from depression . |
| 16 | There were minor disturbances in the Amman governorate on Aug. 18 during by-elections for the House of Representatives , called to replace two deputies who had died earlier in the year . |
| 17 | When her mother had died early in the war , Molly had smoothly taken over the running of the house and also the more difficult job of looking after Selwyn , the father she adored . |
| 18 | A further irritant had occurred earlier in the month when talks scheduled for Aug. 17 to create a joint Korean Olympic team were called off by the North . |
| 19 | ‘ Awful , awful trouble , ’ she replied and began to re-tell the story which Derek had told earlier in the evening . |
| 20 | It was difficult to believe that the Birdman ( I never did learn his name ) was the same man I had watched earlier in the day catching puffins on the cliffs beyond the village . |
| 21 | Late that evening Liz returned to her flat , where she felt lonely and miserable , particularly when she remembered how happy everyone had seemed earlier in the day . |
| 22 | In Zanzibar , where Idris Abdul-Wakil ( the President of Zanzibar and thus Second Vice-President of Tanzania ) had announced earlier in the month that he would not seek re-election , Salamin Amour was chosen by the CCM as sole candidate to succeed him . |
| 23 | The government had announced earlier in the month that it would resume repayments on its external debts to multilateral institutions ( frozen since 1986 ) from Oct. 15 . |
| 24 | The ubiquitous Mosquito ( in its PR ) role ) had appeared early in the year and was recording details of damage inflicted by the night raids . |
| 25 | Only these two , both mares , from a field of 34 , went clear in the first round and then Raymakers , who had scored earlier in the day on Rinnetou , had to go first against the clock . |
| 26 | The lira ended the day up around 965 to the German mark from the 976 opening and well clear of the record 980 lows it had touched earlier in the week when the vote was announced . |
| 27 | They easily found the track they had followed earlier in the day . |
| 28 | It was reported at the end of January that talks under UN mediation between the government and the FMLN which became deadlocked in September 1990 [ see p. 37707 ] , had resumed earlier in the month in Mexico City and in San José , Costa Rica , and were making progress . |
| 29 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |
| 30 | That ethnic allegiance can swing support was illustrated by the defection to the NRC last week of Chukwuemeka Ojukwu , who led the attempt to create an independent Biafra in the 1960s , although he had stood earlier in the year as a candidate for the SDP . |