Example sentences of "had [adv] previously " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women had rarely previously been members of Friendly Societies , the extent of their ill-health had been unknown when the Act was framed , and administrators were unprepared for it . |
| 2 | With the exception of Khartoum ( previously a province ) they had all previously been regions . |
| 3 | I was very interested to receive the first edition of Nonesuch and to read that its name was derived from a flower connected with the City of Bristol — as a member of a 17th-century dance team , I had only previously come across Nonesuch as the name of a dance . |
| 4 | Meanwhile I was to be foisted on my reluctant Aunt Harriet , whom I had only previously met at family gatherings . |
| 5 | Two of us had already previously met , but we were nervous and shy and wary of each other . |
| 6 | As had always previously happened , they made an oral agreement followed by the seller giving to the buyers a ‘ sold note ’ which had on the back an exclusion clause . |
| 7 | On this occasion he effectively vetoed the possibility that Hoare might become Viceroy , on the ground that no Secretary of State for India had ever previously gone to Calcutta or Delhi . |
| 8 | ‘ In the six weeks of the Hornsey revolution ’ , wrote a student the following Christmas in Revelations — the Hornsey students ' paper-'I had more education than I had ever previously experienced . |
| 9 | Among those pardoned was former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger whose forthcoming trial , which was due to have begun on Jan. 5 , had produced documentation which had suggested that Bush had been much more deeply involved in the affair than he had ever previously been acknowledged [ see also p. 39087 ] . |
| 10 | Iran and Saudi Arabia had both previously refused to implement cuts [ see p. 39120 ] . |
| 11 | In fact ‘ aesthetic ’ in this sense is a new term from the late eighteenth century , moving directly in line with the modern specializing generalization of ‘ the arts ’ and ‘ the creative arts ’ , though the qualities it indicates had often previously been described . |
| 12 | But the danger of a centre party came not from McKenna but from the Unionist ex-Coalitionists , led by Austen Chamberlain , who had twice previously been Chancellor , and who , if he was to be brought back into the fold , would clearly require some substantial offer . |
| 13 | Hsu had twice previously attempted to return to Taiwan but had been quietly turned away by officials nervous of the publicity a trial would attract . |
| 14 | I think that even I might manage the latter , even though going through door X had never previously been rewarded . |
| 15 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 16 | A naturally shy man , who does n't boast about his achievements , and had never previously agreed to any magazine interview , Zarei will not say who the winning runner was , and is reluctant to talk about the times he has put sportsmanship before victory , unless his motives are misinterpreted . |
| 17 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |
| 18 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 19 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 20 | He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic . |
| 21 | The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 focused world attention on a remote peninsula in East Asia , which had never previously been the centre of a crisis of such dimensions as to threaten the possibility of a world war . |
| 22 | By means of an unprecedented policy of increasing its manufacturing efficiency through technology , and putting pressure on South Asia to export raw cotton , a trade which it had never previously engaged in , at the expense of calico , which was subject to high import duties , Britain was able to turn the tide against India , and later to flood that area with cheap cotton goods . |
| 23 | He asked for time to consider , but this was brushed aside and Nu , willy-nilly , became MP for Mergui , a place he had never previously visited . |
| 24 | Although the Constitution made provision for referenda , there had never previously been any exercise of this kind . |
| 25 | Charlotte stepped forward , uncertain whether to offer comfort where it had never previously been needed . |
| 26 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |
| 27 | I had never previously been to a race where this had happened but the race jury undoubtedly made the right decision . |
| 28 | My mother had been married only a few months , and had never previously been further abroad than Italy . |
| 29 | The name Venturous was a break from the long line of traditional names for Cutters as it had never previously been used . |
| 30 | In that case an advertising agency telephoned a transparency library with whom the agency had never previously dealt . |