Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pos pn] former [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 2 | This does not preclude the possibility that the Woodvilles turned against their former ally in 1483 and cynically excluded Gloucester from the protectorship in order to secure more power for themselves . |
| 3 | During the last half of 1960 , the Soviet leaders — perhaps conscious of having over-reached themselves in political terms , retreated from their former position as staunch defenders of the Cuban revolution , and adopted a far more equivocal tone . |
| 4 | Quite possibly it reverted to its former use . |
| 5 | In a conversation in July with Cloyce K. Huston of the American mission in Japan , MacArthur reverted to his former view that a peace treaty should be arrived at as soon as possible . |
| 6 | It was rebuilt after a fire in the thirteenth century , altered and restored in contemporary style in the seventeenth , but returned to its former state in the 1920s . |
| 7 | However , now that they had family responsibilities and were beginning to put down roots , they returned to their former church-going . |
| 8 | When their secondment did come to an end , 22 returned to their former jobs , 7 continued their secondments , 14 moved to another employer and 7 entered entirely new jobs . |
| 9 | At this point we take up the experience of those who returned to their former jobs . |
| 10 | She shuddered and returned to her former seat . |
| 11 | Wordsworth returned to his former trust in France , and thought of the British Tory government as ‘ vermin' ( Prelude 1805 , x , 655 ) ; but when the French began to take away the liberty of other countries , Wordsworth saw that there was little to choose between the French and any other conquering nation ( Prelude 1805 , x , 792 ff ) . |
| 12 | Meinhold returned to his former base at Moffett Field Naval Air Station near San José on Nov. 9 but was refused entry . |
| 13 | Bayezid I later repented of what he had done and sent to the ruler of Karaman requesting the return of Molla Fenari , whereupon Molla Fenari returned to his former positions . |
| 14 | Tottenham fans are still waiting to see the England Under-21 international produce the scintillating form that he displayed at his former club Portsmouth . |
| 15 | EFFORTS to get Cleveland scrapped and Yorkshire restored to its former boundaries are being stepped up with renewed efforts by white-rose enthusiasts . |
| 16 | They had no competition from overseas : only two companies followed Pavlova 's example and visited Cape Town , one established by her former impresario Alexandre Levitoff in 1934 , and René Blum 's Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 1936 ( this latter particularly stimulated local enthusiasm ) . |
| 17 | When asked how he now felt about his former pronouncement , he replied without hesitation : ‘ I would have no problem with the use of this gift in public , with interpretation , in fact I would encourage it ! ’ |
| 18 | After this , however , the young man might find himself taken off to Soho , where Minton 's prodigality contrasted with his former carefulness . |
| 19 | Even in the dismal gloom , strobed by laser flashes , the boy 's green eyes gleamed with evident intelligence … and with fierce enmity … and with a kind of fascination , as he weighed the mask in his hand and stared at its former wearer , now revealed . |
| 20 | Lear later wrote to his former employer from the safety of Rome . |
| 21 | The Thun-Hohensteins had still to overcome a German bureaucratic hurdle : the customs officials could hardy believe that a German-Bohemian family driven out of Bohemia could want to give back to Decin a valuable painting which was all that remained of their former wealth . |