Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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1 | The wind dropped gradually over the next 20 minutes . |
2 | Ianthe was glad when the woman and her child got out at the next station , for not only did she find the conversation embarrassing but she also wanted to think about the moments before her unexpected meeting with Agnes Dalby — moments which she had so far had no chance of reliving or considering . |
3 | The successful delivery of the party 's policy review this week was capped when the conference agreed yesterday to the next major change Mr Kinnock intends to carry through : a diminution in the overwhelming dominance of the union block vote . |
4 | Leopold 's grudging blessing arrived by post the next day . |
5 | From about 1750 , population increased yearly for the next 226 years ( figure 2.1 ) . |
6 | It was non-stop activity as one event moved on to the next , together with a feast of fizzy drinks , buckets of ice cream , crisps and many balloons . |
7 | This behaviour occurred repeatedly over the next few days , the fish ‘ playing dead ’ every time I returned into their field of vision . |
8 | Each phrase followed on from the next as if stored for an age and waiting to be spoken in just this way . |
9 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |
10 | Lunar cartography improved steadily during the next 200 years , culminating in a masterpiece of observation and delineation produced by the German astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann Mädler in 1837 . |
11 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
12 | The oil appeared spasmodically for the next hour while three other patients came in . |
13 | The crunch came early in the next year . |
14 | ‘ Hostility to the Forest system grew rapidly in the next twenty years . ’ |
15 | Further savings could come if countries that are developing breeder technology worked together on the next generation of reactors . |
16 | It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one . |