Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the next [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Until finally , after ten minutes of desperate plodding , the welcome sight of a cream stone building arose around the next bend , nestled among a clump of very wet , but suddenly beautiful , rich green trees . |
2 | So blackly venomous was his expression that Perdita fled towards the next pitch , scattering the polo balls which lay like a hatch of goose eggs near the goal posts . |
3 | A hole in the wall , through which light shone from the next room . |
4 | His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation . |
5 | On a wild and windy day , with gusts of rain driving into the side of the crematorium , an Anglican priest waited for the next funeral to commence . |
6 | As sporadic fighting continued through the next day , many Nez Perce warriors became keen to withdraw . |
7 | The heavy mob came round the next morning ; all one of him . |
8 | But then it happened , the incredible , miraculous luck that now she expected , since it happened so easily and often : the telephone rang in the next room . |
9 | Woodruffe went into the next room . |
10 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
11 | A girl appeared from the next room . |
12 | The Sunday Express speculated about the next primate and thought that Ramsey probably ruled himself out by his partisan behaviour in attending the eucharistic congress . |
13 | A small , dapper , decisive man who wore a trilby and glasses , the canon lived in the next village and had a passion for small neat things like himself . |
14 | Then he and Billie climbed to the next floor and walked down the corridor to Room 416 . |
15 | The waiter arrived with the next course and they reverted to politics , talking Spanish again , Ward 's tone , his whole manner softened . |
16 | SENIOR Cup holders Malone marched into the next round of this seasons competition with a comfortable victory over North and Ormeau this afternoon . |
17 | When Marcus , Tony , Jason and Darren dashed for the next bus , the driver did n't know where he was supposed to take them . |
18 | In fact they are even unannounced — see front page — and the dicier issues of their volume delivery and general availability lay beyond the next couple of weeks . |
19 | Never before had England beaten West Indies in two consecutive one-day games , let alone three , and West Indies went into the next match at Melbourne , clearly determined that it would not be four . |
20 | Sobbing with breathlessness he ran on , and — Lord love it ! — a taxi appeared around the next corner , its yellow light announcing its availability . |
21 | Our mock-up makes your dream come true with Princess Di crowned as the next Queen — and Charles in a supporting role |
22 | Ali ran to the next wall . |
23 | Harvey flew in the next day . |
24 | At each stop trains were besieged with hawkers selling everything from chapattis to a shave , but passengers could telegraph ahead so that a delicious and aromatic meal was brought on a tray covered with a napkin to the window of the carriage as the train drew into the next station . |
25 | He had just glanced at his wristwatch , to discover that Cunningham 's arrival still lay approximately two replays of Little Brown Jug in the future , when a woman slid onto the next bar-stool to his and said : ‘ Hello , Harry , ’ in a tone of husky confidence which suggested they had been lifelong friends . |
26 | The first British H-bomb test had been carried out in May that year and seven further tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific followed in the next year . |
27 | A major disaster occurred in the next month , when the Crystal Palace was burned to the ground on the night of 5 December , when over 500 firemen were required . |
28 | Beales had not taken any notice of other customers until a man he recognized as MacQuillan came to the next table . |
29 | Owen did n't quite understand this and would have asked more but the two men ducked into the next house . |
30 | The men went into the next house and worked through it . |