I'd asked him the previous evening to picture them and to suggest where we might find some.

Everything was exactly the same as it had been when she'd gone to sleep the previous evening.

There everything was as it had been on the previous evening.

It could have been at any time during the night or the previous evening.

It was the man I had seen looking in on us the previous evening.

The police came the next day to question everybody about the events of the previous evening.

The one she'd set her heart on the previous evening.

The answer came back that the African had not been seen since the previous evening.

There was nothing in the space for the previous evening.

All act as though they know about the previous evening.