Example sentences of "spend the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But you did spend the previous day with the King ? ’ |
| 2 | The Bayeux tapestry gives a magnificent cartoon report of the action , but it needs to be seen as a piece of victorious Norman propaganda ; it is to be doubted that the English spent the previous night in carousing whilst the Normans engaged in earnest prayer . |
| 3 | People spent the previous night in boats sailing up and down the river , watching the fireworks . |
| 4 | Nijkamp of the Netherlands spent the previous night in a Paris hospital as his wife gave birth to their first child , got back at 5am for some sleep and went on to paddle to last place . |
| 5 | Nextdoor are 10 year-olds who also spent the previous day at Home farm — looking at wildlife in hedgerows and a pond and checking for pollution . |
| 6 | D Company had spent the previous day digging a line of trenches to cover a series of vehicle checkpoints on all the main roads , and were just settling down for their first day 's occupation of the trenches . |
| 7 | He spent 1990 watching his paymasters demolish the investment bank that he had spent the previous seven years building up for the Pru 's assault on Wall Street . |
| 8 | A Canadian was appointed to the Press Office , followed in 1960 by Heseltine , a career civil servant from Western Australia , who had spent the previous four years as private secretary to Robert Menzies . |
| 9 | The red-faced major had a good memory for faces and well recalled that when he was lecturing to the officers of the Scots Guards at Pirbright in 1939 , a certain young gentleman had persistently slept through his talks , having spent the previous nights at wild parties in London . |
| 10 | Believing me to be an intellectual , Beth had spent the previous night searching for suitable words to read before the laying-on of hands . |
| 11 | He arrived after supper that evening , having spent the previous night , it transpired , at Sigouri . |
| 12 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 15 | Palmer did not discover the paper until 1986 , but he was lucky because in his department at Brigham Young University in Utah was Steven Jones who had spent the previous four years doing custom-built experiments with muons , attempting to induce fusion in the lab . |
| 16 | The Princess had spent the previous day reading Love and Pain , Sandra 's book on violent relationships , and was able to speak with some understanding about domestic violence . |
| 17 | She had spent the previous evening at Ragamuffins nightclub in Camberley , Surrey . |
| 18 | Malcolm Philpott had been the UNACO Director ever since its inception , having spent the previous seven years as head of Scotland Yard 's Special Branch . |
| 19 | Having no alternative , Fiver accompanied Hazel and Bigwig to the burrow where Hazel had spent the previous night . |
| 20 | Zeng knew more than most about Peking , having spent the previous two years wandering the streets of the ancient capital Leica-in-hand in an attempt to document the lives of its multitudes , and by the time the student protests began he had already amassed an impressive body of work . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They had spent the previous evening and half the night talking round the same subject . |
| 23 | His replacement as Hurley 's number two was Special Agent Fred Ganem , a tall , polite , soft-spoken Lebanese-American who had spent the previous five years in Detroit , on the receiving end of the Middle East narcotics pipeline . |
| 24 | She had spent the previous day helping Janet to prepare Aunt Emily 's room for her mother . |
| 25 | Their fate is being decided in Geneva where , to my great sadness , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan resigned last week from his post as special United Nations high commissioner for refugees in Iraq because he had spent the previous 10 days in Baghdad , trying to persuade Saddam Hussein to ease the plight of his people . |
| 26 | She was studying modern languages and had spent the previous year working in France to gain experience . |
| 27 | The following day Charlie 's section of ten began to wish that he had n't spent the previous fourteen years of his life visiting the early morning market . |
| 28 | Patrick de Bayser worked in his father 's gallery for two years after spending the previous two years in the gallery of paintings expert and dealer Eric Turquin . |