Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the next [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Shit ’ was painted on the next flagstone . |
| 2 | The changeover from the domestic system of manufacture to that of the textile mill was completed during the next generation . |
| 3 | This was the end of the first visit and a date , 10 days away , was arranged for the next visit . |
| 4 | This was received in the next room on Creed teleprinters from the wires of the Canadian Press . |
| 5 | Expansion of the routes was expected over the next decade . |
| 6 | Nobody else was moved over the next couple of days so we talked endlessly about what it might mean . |
| 7 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
| 8 | Ayliffe chaired the committee which produced the draft of the new constitution which was adopted by the next Congress in Birmingham in 1922 . |
| 9 | The patient arrived by train on a Wednesday , was operated on the next morning , and was discharged 24 hours later . |
| 10 | Similarly if the formula referred to F2 and F3 the references would change to F3 and F4 when the formula was copied to the next row . |
| 11 | It was here that Minton , whilst sunbathing out at sea on a lilo narrowly escaped the shark which , tempted by a lump of goat meat on a steel hook , was hauled in the next day . |
| 12 | He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other . |
| 13 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 14 | Consideration of rules and regulations was deferred to the next meeting . |
| 15 | Self-stimulation decreased immediately after transfer except for HM , where the decrease was observed at the next datapoint . |
| 16 | This was followed in the next issue by an examination of the reasons for the controversy , which could include personal vanity . |
| 17 | Pancreatic protein secretion in chronic pancreatic fistula rats infused with caerulein at supramaximal dose , that was used to induce the pancreatitis , showed a sudden rise , almost immediately after the start of infusion , reaching peak that was followed in the next hours by a marked decline to the level only slight above the baseline . |
| 18 | km ) of Iraqi territory in the north , this was followed by the next attacks due in the Val Fajr series , Nos 5 and 6 , both in the centre , and Val Fajr No 6 partly in the south . |
| 19 | At nine-thirty tea was served in the next room and conversation went on for a long time , above all if Mérimée or Octave Feuillet ( the novelist who was librarian at Fontainebleau ) were seated next to the Empress . |
| 20 | Further gloom was cast by the next piece of information . |
| 21 | The proclamation may not have had the effect which was desired for the next lease to come to light is 17 years later , between Sir John Pennington bart. , and Thomas Gorsuch of London , described as a goldsmith . |
| 22 | There being no progress to report , this matter was adjourned until the next Meeting . |
| 23 | A " conversation " — again the minutes are terse — took place and the meeting was adjourned until the next Monday . |
| 24 | As each lift was modified , work was commenced on the next lift , so that two lifts were available for full service to the hotel at any time . |
| 25 | We played a couple of club dates , one of which was filmed as the next video for ‘ Back To The Light ’ , and then we did three smallish stadium gigs with Joe Cocker and the B-52s , and they went very well too . |
| 26 | Anna May was under her boyfriend when the fuse reached the explosive and was blown into the next world . |
| 27 | This performance was repeated in the next room along . |
| 28 | As acting President Frederick Gilby presided over the BDDA 's first post-war Congress , held in Glasgow in 1920 , where Ernest Ayliffe was elected as the next President of the Association . |
| 29 | By about 1950 , Corby 's steel works had expanded the former village into a place of fifteen thousand inhabitants , and this figure was doubled in the next decade . |
| 30 | The result of this work was the ‘ group system ’ of investigation which was attached to the next edition of Annex 13 and which is now contained in the ICAO Manual of Aircraft Accident Investigation . |