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

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1 Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed .
2 I left him there , and headed for the next block .
3 The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden .
4 I went through the first pile , which seemed mainly to be stock orders from golf professionals around the country , and started on the next tray .
5 The headmaster got up and started towards the next gallery .
6 She snapped shut the diary and looked at the next piece of paper .
7 If I pressed my eye flat to the ground and looked into the next garden , the big bushes there with thick tall stems and flat leaves seemed part of a mysterious tropical forest .
8 He swung one foot out , to the next joist , then put out one hand and felt for the next rafter ; he transferred his weight carefully .
9 She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary .
10 Doris smoothed a hand over her rounded knee and waited for the next question .
11 William got two oars ready , and waited for the next wave .
12 We sat and waited for the next move , which turned out to be a visit from Younis and Bilal , insisting that Brian was trying to escape .
13 The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that .
14 A few minutes after Amiss had gone Sunil cleared up the fragments of cheese and biscuits , deposited them neatly in the waste-paper basket , picked up a couple of books and some blank paper and descended to the next storey .
15 The officer pointed towards the Hungarian frontier post and descended upon the next vehicle in the queue .
16 The crowd cheered their British player and hurried to the next tee , which we were just leaving .
17 Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table .
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