Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 2 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 3 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 4 | She unlocked the next room which had stood empty for months . |
| 5 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 6 | Actually I , I passed the next star test . |
| 7 | I removed the completed bowl at this stage and finished with three coats of Danish oil , the first two applied within a half an hour of each other , the final coat applied the next morning and allowed to dry until the evening . |
| 8 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 9 | Albert panicked , and put the receiver down , which made the next attempt more difficult . |
| 10 | The absence of the usually unfailing sun-wind made the next Saturday oppressively hot . |
| 11 | well we had one more tour after that , erm , but the and would really of referred to of stayed , made the next tour longer than two |
| 12 | I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also . |
| 13 | Twomey took away one plate and laid the next , in the centre of which a neat pile of spinach kept its cool shape immaculate . |
| 14 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 15 | Some are based on a wrong premise : I remember a Labour one in 1979 which pre-supposed that the world would think Mrs Thatcher was a bogeywoman and said something like : ‘ The day you forgot to vote , Mrs Thatcher became the next prime minister . ’ |
| 16 | The taxi driver , who asked only to be known as Terry , became the next victim of the knifeman . |
| 17 | Following the opening of the Deviation in 1978 , the rebuilding of the old line between Tan y Grisiau and Blaenau became the next major goal for the Railway . |
| 18 | Two months after that , Lady Amelia had a baby son , who became the next Lord Burlesdon and the head of the Rassendyll family . |
| 19 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 20 | Blanche waited for the door to click before she asked the next question . |
| 21 | In the brief pause before the auctioneer announced the next lot , Emily spotted her father near the back of the gathering , and , heads down as though they were in a cinema , she and Mungo scuttled round and crouched next to him . |
| 22 | Well , I did n't think it was anything but rudeness and I ca n't stand bad manners so I got the next train back and left him there . |
| 23 | When we got , when we got the next one yes certainly . |
| 24 | So she said I 'm sorry , so I got the next nearest , I just can not waste any more time . |
| 25 | I got the next one . |
| 26 | You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that |
| 27 | He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections . |
| 28 | I was not aware that circumcision might be a painful , controversial , and perhaps an unethical procedure , but I planned the next attempt in compliance with the editor 's requests . |
| 29 | She could have cried with relief when at last she passed the war memorial with the crucifix and realised the next track led to the farm . |
| 30 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |