Example sentences of "who [vb past] [vb pp] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems reasonable to ask , though , why a side who had gone the previous 42 games undefeated , were allowed to spend such a relatively undemanding afternoon in the company of a team who ought to have harboured more serious intent than was ever evident . |
| 2 | Benedict himself , who had stayed the previous night , had driven himself over there in his phaeton , glad to be relieved of his cousin 's irksome company . |
| 3 | As reported in the newspaper El Diario of March 21 , 1989 , Samaniego had announced that former President Stroessner and his son , Col. Gustavo Stroessner , both of whom were in exile in Brazil , would be dismissed from the military and that those generals who had supported the previous regime " until the last minute " would be retired , dismissed or tried by military courts . |
| 4 | When someone there recognised Seb as the jockey who had won the previous year 's race at the Wychwood Forest Fair it created a sudden surge of interest and betting became very much brisker . |
| 5 | He took the Tour in 1949 , defeating his great rival Gino Bartali , who had triumphed the previous year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On March 28 Gen. Chaovalit Yongchaiyut , 58 , who had resigned the previous day as Army C.-in-C. , announced that he would be joining the government as a Deputy Prime Minister and as Minister of Defence , ending widespread speculation about his political plans . |