Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the next [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 3 | Cos I did erm I was thinking we 're going through this fairly quickly are they really taking it in so I s we stopped after I re reached a certain point and I spent the next sort of half an hour or so just asking them questions and some of the things they got right , some they got wrong so I went back over them until we got it right so sort of help to confirm things . |
| 4 | I learned the next song from my four-year-old son Russell whose teacher had adapted it from an older song to help with subtraction . |
| 5 | We had a bit of a party in the Met Office that night , tearful farewells were said all over the place , and I departed the next morning with my kit and a bad headache , ready for whatever Fate had in store for me . |
| 6 | The pro-nuclear scientists say it was a necessary prototype which spawned the next generation of power stations . |
| 7 | She spent the next couple of hours staring into the darkness . |
| 8 | That would n't have happened to McEllhoney , the big Glaswegian who worked the next beat to his . |
| 9 | She died the next morning in hospital without regaining consciousness . |
| 10 | Might be more than that Martine and Mrs she had the next caravan to , to me |
| 11 | Carolyn Pride , now Carolyn Bartholomew , who had the next bed in Diana 's dormitory and later shared her London flat , remembers her as a ‘ strong character , buoyant and noisy . ’ |
| 12 | We tried the next couple of villages also before the truth dawned . |
| 13 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 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 | They returned the next day with the coffin and four men from the workhouse who were to carry it . |
| 16 | He obtained the next job for which he applied and , as far as I know , has had a successful career subsequently . |
| 17 | According to Redgrave 's biographer , he returned the next day with twenty-five new lines , although Martin Browne denied this . |
| 18 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 19 | Quickly switching the conversation , he addressed the next remark to Harry , saying , ‘ I wonder how the Duke is feeling today ; I wonder if he still thinks the exchange was worth it . ’ |
| 20 | It required the next generation of researchers and a simpler mollusc to come closer to finding god 's favourite . |
| 21 | Then he grabbed the next branch above his head and pulled himself up again . |
| 22 | He missed the next fixture at Northampton but re-appeared at Trent Bridge for the Notts game and was called eight times for throwing and seven times fro dragging . |