Example sentences of "the previous day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 2 | A woman fainted when he spoke the previous day , the hall was so crowded . |
| 3 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 4 | Other innovations include a comprehensive presentation of results from the previous day 's principal meeting , featuring the breeding of winners , the successful trainer and owner , extended distances , and details of the first six finishers . |
| 5 | Other innovations include a comprehensive presentation of results from the previous day 's principal meeting , featuring the breeding of winners , the successful trainer and owner , extended distances , and details of the first six finishers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That race went to Golden Opinion , the middle leg of a treble for Cash Asmussen , the American who completed a five-timer the previous day . |
| 8 | But conflicting demands by Muslim and Christian deputies confounded an apparent breakthrough the previous day . |
| 9 | Mr Healey had said he was himself knackered that morning , having returned the previous day , very late , from a seminar in Florence , and taken a dose of the cough mixture Benylin to get to sleep , which he found worked better than Mogadon . |
| 10 | The previous day had been one of frantic activity . |
| 11 | The operation had been planned the previous day after close liaison with the local RUC Headquarters , and was to include a detailed search of the area using dogs and helicopters . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial . |
| 14 | At the TCCB winter meeting at Lord 's yesterday , the chairmen and chief executives of the 17 first-class counties opted for Chamberlain rather than the only other candidate , Don Perry , the Gloucestershire chairman , and although no one was giving very much away at Lord 's yesterday Chamberlain 's majority , like that elsewhere the previous day , was believed to be substantial . |
| 15 | A couple got off the train , were met by the police and put up a ferocious but unsuccessful fight : suspicion of a bank robbery the previous day , apparently , back down the line in Thunder Bay . |
| 16 | But the previous day a judge had adjourned the trial of Winnie Mandela , wife of the ANC 's leader , who faces charges of kidnapping and assault . |
| 17 | The previous day , Ratners announced that , despite the recession , pre-tax profits edged up by 1.7% last year , to £110m ( $195m ) , on sales up by 24% , to £1.1 billion . |
| 18 | The previous day Bull took out a newspaper advertisement promising to do better in future . |
| 19 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 20 | For one thing it overlooks God 's clear part in the extraordinary events that they witnessed the previous day . |
| 21 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 22 | So he said to himself : ‘ This is the place where I was simply terrified ! ’ and remembering his fear of the previous day , he promptly shied again although he had not been hurt the day before . |
| 23 | She had reasoned that as she had already mounted the horse and walked around on it the previous day , that this time it would be easy . |
| 24 | Galloping the previous day had reinforced the expectation of doing it again . |
| 25 | Poindexter remembered that Casey invited himself , that they ate sandwiches , and that they discussed what Casey had said in his briefing of Congress the previous day . |
| 26 | From here the hull of the fishermen 's boat , lashed by the high seas the previous day , could be seen ditched on a group of rocks to one side of the tiny bay . |
| 27 | When old Mother Jacobsen had unlimited time at her disposal and the opportunity to take up the strands from where she had laid them down the previous day or week , she embroidered her stories with meticulous and colourful detail . |
| 28 | At Peterborough the previous day Murrayfield Racers lost 8–5 to the still-unbeaten Pirates . |
| 29 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 30 | It was all a considerable change from the previous day and a laugh-a-second round with his mentor , Fuzzy Zoeller , which was watched in admiration by , in playing terms , Daly 's female equivalent , Laura Davies . |