Example sentences of "had [been] [prep] the previous " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the injury rate on the softer track dropped to less than half what it had been on the previous track . |
| 3 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 4 | As they approached , she recognised the leader of the group as being one who had been with the previous rafting party . |
| 5 | In 613 the kingdom was reunited , as it had been under the previous Chlothar in 558 . |
| 6 | Beryl meant that Adam had been among the previous owners of Wyvis Hall while her husband had not , but she knew better than to point this out . |
| 7 | The whole affair came to an abrupt conclusion in August , when two members of the House Committee reported that on their way out of a board meeting , they came across a group of about fifteen women who were waiting outside the laundry for their pay , which had been due the previous day . |
| 8 | Migration may have been a factor in the 1920s , though the level of net migration from Britain was somewhat less than it had been in the previous two decades . |
| 9 | This is a parish in the counties of Argyll , Inverness-shire , Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland , Caithness and the northern islands where there was in 1886 , or had been in the previous 80 years , holdings of arable land with rights of common pasture . |
| 10 | By 1885 the area under wheat was already 30 per cent smaller than it had been in the previous decade . |
| 11 | and Jacobitism than it had been in the previous year , yet Craigbarnet 's plight was serious and a failure to help him would offend many . |