Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [art] 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 | A hole in the wall , through which light shone from the next room . |
3 | His condition deteriorated over the next week until he required ventilation . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | As sporadic fighting continued through the next day , many Nez Perce warriors became keen to withdraw . |
6 | The heavy mob came round the next morning ; all one of him . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ 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 . |
9 | A girl appeared from the next room . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The waiter arrived with the next course and they reverted to politics , talking Spanish again , Ward 's tone , his whole manner softened . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Sobbing with breathlessness he ran on , and — Lord love it ! — a taxi appeared around the next corner , its yellow light announcing its availability . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Anyone close to Laura could not fail to notice her ability to ensure reality remained in the next room . |
19 | The pill swapping continued for the next couple of weeks , showing no difference in the population of Xenly . |
20 | Consequently she was having her first decent sleep in a couple of nights when her alarm clock went off the next morning . |
21 | Mother went into the next room , and there was more talking . |
22 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |