Example sentences of "had been [verb] [art] previous " in BNC.
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| 31 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 32 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 33 | We 'd called at a house to install some concrete steps in the rear garden , and learnt that they had been burgled the previous night . |
| 34 | But in general , discounting was this year considered of less significance than the proliferation of bargain bookshops , whose advent had been heralded the previous year but whose growth in numbers has evidently continued since . |
| 35 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 36 | SPK , the SOC news agency , reported on Jan. 30 that 144 prisoners — 24 political detainees and 120 POWs — had been released the previous day . |
| 37 | The telephone was then borrowed to order those samples that had been requested the previous night . |
| 38 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 39 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 40 | The hat and coat had been delivered the previous evening by an officer of the Kha-Khan 's guard , and since the news of Jehana 's betrothal had been spread through the court hours earlier it had to be assumed that Artai had heard of it , and that either he was inclined to forgive the offence which might be supposed to exist , or else he was pretending that he was aware of none . |