Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so it continued over the next two years ; more and more presents , each one more costly than the last . |
| 2 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 3 | Quickly she went into the next room , returning a moment later with a small linen basket . |
| 4 | With the other girls , it had been simple : morning , darling , a quick strip , a bit of pout , grunt and groan under the studio lights , then off they went to the next job . |
| 5 | Here we lived for the next fifteen years , with the eighteenth-century kirk across the road , and from my study window at the front a clear thirty-mile view across the Tweed valley to the distant Cheviots . |
| 6 | I do not know how I came through the next few months — but , yes , I do . |
| 7 | How she got through the next day , she could n't remember . |
| 8 | Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company . |