Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | You made sure those words were learnt for the next day . |
| 2 | TWO boozy Geordie dads were put on the next flight home from Majorca for having no papers . |
| 3 | On the vidscreen a priest was eulogizing about the next life . |
| 4 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 5 | By about 1950 , Corby 's steel works had expanded the former village into a place of fifteen thousand inhabitants , and this figure was doubled in the next decade . |
| 6 | Self-stimulation decreased immediately after transfer except for HM , where the decrease was observed at the next datapoint . |
| 7 | The great abbeys established as a thank-offering by the victorious Normans were complemented over the next four hundred years by a number of smaller foundations , dictated by the tenets of fashion and individual piety . |
| 8 | The Scottish Conservatives in general had also attracted criticism for their refusal to discuss devolution , giving rise to fears that a constitutional crisis might overtake the country if the Conservatives were defeated in the next general election . |
| 9 | East Anglia was forgotten in the next three novels . |
| 10 | The allocation of ore was settled for the next two years in America 's favour , but the compensating exchange of information was far less liberal than the British negotiators had hoped . |
| 11 | Whaddon saw their acceptance into the Combination as the first tentative step towards professional League football , and work was undertaken over the next five years on building and improving basic facilities at ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 12 | As each lift was modified , work was commenced on the next lift , so that two lifts were available for full service to the hotel at any time . |
| 13 | We were told that even if inward migration was to stop for the next ten years , 45,000 new houses would still be needed to cater for the predicted natural growth of 49,000 people , plus the trend towards smaller households . |
| 14 | The changeover from the domestic system of manufacture to that of the textile mill was completed during the next generation . |
| 15 | Encounters with Donald were documented for the next 6 years , during which time he travelled on a southward odyssey along some 480 km ( 300 miles ) of British coastline , from the Isle of Man to Wales and then to Cornwall , stopping off in small harbours , boat havens and coves along the way to socialise . |
| 16 | Fortnightly intramuscular injections of 50 mg mycocrisin were administered over the next three months . |
| 17 | A hundred years were to pass before the next Roman invasion and this time they came to stay . |
| 18 | After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed . |
| 19 | The minute his attention was removed to the next , Kennedy was appraised from head to foot . |
| 20 | A " conversation " — again the minutes are terse — took place and the meeting was adjourned until the next Monday . |
| 21 | Her fears were justified during the next few hours , and Claudia was relieved when Dana at last went to sleep , curled up in Claudia 's spare bed , her rumpled curls damp with angry tears . |
| 22 | Fortunately , the practical operational problems were addressed in the next important report to be published . |
| 23 | If the properties were placed in the next lower band , F , the Council Tax reduces to £1,085 . |
| 24 | The lights were dimmed for the next act , and a roll of drums announced two gorgeous showgirls , who were picked out by spotlights . |
| 25 | One patient developed a transitory respiratory arrest and the procedure was deferred for the next 48 hours . |
| 26 | Consideration of rules and regulations was deferred to the next meeting . |
| 27 | The arrival of the T9000 Transputer last week was hailed as the next step in Inmos Ltd 's technological evolution , filling the gap between the former T2 , 4 and 8 families and the proposed modular ‘ Chameleon ’ product line . |
| 28 | The Berne-bound goods train was standing on the next track down ; all he had to do was cover the twenty yards between the two tracks and find himself an empty freight car . |
| 29 | The policy was cleared over the next few days and on 19 March I told the House of Commons that |
| 30 | This level of trade was to continue throughout the next fifteen years with the exception of 1927 the year of the general strike when only 2.7 million tons was handled . |