Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the previous [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |
| 2 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |
| 3 | Sophie had brought them with her the previous night . |
| 4 | She would be the first to know , then he would throw a party to tell his friends who had graduated from the Red Army Academy with him the previous year . |
| 5 | Nehushtah , Mandru 's wife , had decided upon it the previous night . |
| 6 | He had talked to Apthorp about her the previous afternoon , and it was clear she had exaggerated his anxiety about her health . |
| 7 | She made her way towards the small window table selected for her the previous evening , but before she could sit down Silas came to her side . |
| 8 | I noticed he had a slight limp ; I recalled the attack on me the previous day and the wounds I had unwittingly inflicted , but decided to keep the matter to myself . |
| 9 | Turakina certainly knew — her words to him the previous afternoon had simply been a test of his resistance — and if she had knowledge of it , then so had Suragai . |
| 10 | The word stirred her , and she recalled what her mother had said to her the previous day : that Cork had been her home all her life , with no suffering and no want — a safe and secure home . |
| 11 | She said she had spoken to her the previous day and she had seemed normal . |
| 12 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyway the woman in the bus saw his picture in this evening 's paper , told the local bobby and gave him the boy 's uncle 's address which the lad had passed on to her the previous evening . |
| 14 | She recalled the housekeeper 's kindness to her the previous evening , when she had led her from her mistress 's chamber and shown her the room that Miss Merchiston had assigned for her use . |
| 15 | Once she 'd put the phone down on him the previous night she 'd regretted her skittish way with him , and , after a heart-to-heart with Marlin in which she 'd told him she wanted to go back to England , and he 'd replied that it would all seem different in the morning and why did n't she just take a pill and lie down , she 'd decided to call him back . |
| 16 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 17 | They had slept beside it the previous night , and rose at five to make sure of reaching the top by sunrise . |
| 18 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 19 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |
| 20 | Whoever killed Father Reynard shot at us the previous evening . |