Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When he had reached home the previous evening , she had gone to bed . |
| 4 | He had arrived there the previous day and was still at the castle . |
| 5 | All the other guests had arrived there the previous day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |