Example sentences of "[vb pp] the previous day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR ; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain , so he argued . |
| 2 | On arrival , however , Sir John French heard that Lanrezac 's Fifth Army had been attacked the previous day and was no longer able to cross the River Sambre . |
| 3 | On March 8 , Pará union leader Sebastiao Ribeiro de Silva was shot dead and another unionist , José Alves de Souza , was wounded the previous day . |
| 4 | Father Paddy had rung the previous day to give them the news from Rosstrevor . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Following a day out by the river , the class were asked in pairs to make a picture or a model of something they had seen or done the previous day . |
| 7 | As Bob Merryfield was having his dram Charlie broached the subject of rabbits and Parkinson said he could have a pair , as a number had been shot the previous day . |
| 8 | While the rump Collective State Presidency had said the previous day that it would not accept any decision reached by the peace conference , of the six republics attending the conference , Serbia was the only one to reject the proposals ; even Montenegro accepted , provoking internal political disputes in that republic . |
| 9 | As I said , I was somewhat annoyed in view of the definitive nature of the arrangement I had made the previous day , and the fact that no explanation or apology had been forthcoming . |
| 10 | Two girls sat down to make a picture together of the river they had seen the previous day . |
| 11 | Mrs Redmond talked about Bridie 's babies , whom she had seen the previous day , and asked Anne about her grandmother . |
| 12 | The Blue Mosque , which Owen had seen the previous day on his visit to the bazaars , was a dervish mosque , used almost exclusively by such as the Zikr . |
| 13 | A distinction drawn the previous day by Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok , who pointed out that the UDF was subject to restrictions but not formally banned , was dismissed by the UDF on Jan. 18 as a " play on semantics " ; moreover , the UDF had decided simply to disregard the restrictions , rather than apply to the authorities to have them lifted . |
| 14 | Hair that was washed the previous day will be easier to style |
| 15 | Humberto Celli , president of the ruling Democratic Action ( AD ) party , announced on May 22 that the leaderships of both the AD and the main opposition Social Christian Party ( COPEI ) had agreed the previous day on a joint " platform of understanding " . |
| 16 | On being asked what was wrong , she explained that his wife , on an adjacent ward , had died the previous day . |
| 17 | Pawar was eventually sworn in as Defence Minister on June 26 after being replaced the previous day as Chief Minister of Maharashtra by Sudhakarrao Naik . |
| 18 | Mark states that the next morning Jesus and his disciples walked passed the fig tree that had been cursed the previous day . |
| 19 | " Dozens " of policemen had demonstrated the previous day against the judicial system , the media and immigrant Colombians . |
| 20 | Mortimer crouched at the corner of the short tunnel through which Benny had entered the previous day . |
| 21 | It was as if those grey eyes could see into the very depths of her soul , stirring the desire that lay there waiting to be aroused , as each of them recalled the passion they had shared the previous day . |
| 22 | Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had spent the previous day helping Janet to prepare Aunt Emily 's room for her mother . |
| 26 | Nine others had been arrested the previous day , he added , " following a search operation by the army " in which one soldier had been killed and two wounded . |
| 27 | Keeling had been arrested the previous day and put on a flight to London . |
| 28 | That one small doubt became a huge question mark two days later when , before the opening home game with Arsenal , Knighton took the field in a United playing strip ( having refused the previous day to be photographed holding a United shirt ) and juggled , headed and kicked a football in front of a at first incredulous and then delighted Stretford End . |
| 29 | The oil minister , Gholamreza Aghazadeh , had declared the previous day that ‘ the US and its allies have been guiding certain oil producers in the ‘ conspiracy ’ to bring prices down' . |
| 30 | A warm front had passed the previous day , leaving the usual warm sector haze , the following cold front was still hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic so would be of no interest to the mainland for a few days . |