Example sentences of "the previous year [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 2 | The previous year she had read about energy-efficient homes — ‘ being Australian , I ca n't bear being cold , ’ she says . |
| 3 | The previous year she had produced a lovely baby boy called Tom and despite great efforts to reduce her weight , nothing seemed to work because all the diets left her feeling hungry . |
| 4 | The previous year she had amused herself with Greg Farrel , one of the agricultural students who had come to help with the harvest . |
| 5 | Duncan must have been the mountain man of the day , for the previous year he had been engaged by the Revd C. Lessingham Smith to take him from Sligachan to Loch Coruisk , climbing in Hata Corrie on the way . |
| 6 | The previous year he had disposed of all his costumes , props and scenery . |
| 7 | From the previous year he had been so badly affected by osteoarthritis that his mobility had become very restricted . |
| 8 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |