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Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [prep] the next " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The sum of£3 8s 6d was raised in this way , and the practice continued for the next eighty years .
2	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 .
3	The unrest continued over the next few days and by May 22 the number of Palestinians killed by the IDF had risen to 21 .
4	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 .
5	The waiter arrived with the next course and they reverted to politics , talking Spanish again , Ward 's tone , his whole manner softened .
6	They cheered again when the train passed under the next , much bigger shaft , again the sunshine came flooding in and again you could see the sky and brickwork and even trees .
7	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 .
8	The first British H-bomb test had been carried out in May that year and seven further tests at Christmas Island in the Pacific followed in the next year .
9	The men went into the next house and worked through it .
10	The best bit of leeds pressure and the noisiest participation from the crowd came in the next 10 mins or so .
11	The couple recurred over the next few pages , with Herman becoming a child , then a young man , but never losing his startled look , as if the camera flash were a slap in the face .
12	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 .