Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 3 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 4 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | At Rackhams in Birmingham , sales have already beaten last year 's figures after the store decided to open on the last four Sundays before Christmas . |
| 6 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 7 | Blackburn managed to equalise in the last five minutes and won it 3–4 in extra time . |
| 8 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |
| 9 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 10 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 11 | ( ‘ The first assistant director , ’ he says when I query his qualifications for the role , ‘ just had to shout at the second assistant director . ’ ) |
| 12 | The following year Calero looked like getting in the Ryder Cup side , but he had to finish in the first two at York ( Benson and Hedges International ) . |
| 13 | Hunt had to finish in the first three to win the title . |
| 14 | After Tvrtko 's death the Bosnian nobles quarrelled and , although the Kotromanić family continued to reign for the next seventy years , their power rapidly declined . |
| 15 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 16 | They continued to rise in the next three years , and in 1984–5. they were nearly equal to the current rate of increase of the cost of living . |
| 17 | He intended to challenge for a third successive 800 metres title but withdraw last night because of a shin injury . |
| 18 | All I wanted to do for the first few weeks was to let Skipper get to know me and his surroundings . |
| 19 | In spite of the weather conditions 50 bands , travelled to compete at the first outdoor competition of the new season . |
| 20 | It took a very short time indeed , and with every step Jenna 's trembling lessened , although she refused to think about the last few moments in the barn with Alain . |