Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 2 | So did the next rumour . |
| 3 | So did the next . |
| 4 | Exhausted , he collapsed on to the unmade bed , fell asleep , but still woke the next morning at four thirty . |
| 5 | Newcastle 4 , Cambridge 1 FORMER Newcastle and England star Terry McDermott yesterday hailed the next Gazza . |
| 6 | We promptly bought the next two novels when they came out , and in the Bodleian catalogue I discovered Dolores , the early work of which no mention was made in the list of titles prefacing her later books . |
| 7 | Fry deliberately wrote the next part of his essay in a railway refreshment room ( ‘ One must remember that public places of this kind merely reflect the average citizen 's soul , as expressed in his home ’ ) . |
| 8 | He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections . |
| 9 | Having got to within two of his fifty he slightly misjudged the next short one from Thommo , and had to jerk his head rapidly out of the line of the ball . |
| 10 | The group also lobbied the next meeting of Tipperary County Council for support for further tests . |
| 11 | We also discussed the next great problem in international affairs , that posed by the Soviet Union , that victorious and self-confident power , with which our politicians , and above all Ernest Bevin , were already grappling . |
| 12 | I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also . |
| 13 | Fran tried the cupboard , but found only dishes , and smiled as she immediately tried the next one along , reaching for the handle at the same moment as Luke came across to help her . |
| 14 | If not , the nets can be collected quickly and without too much care , to be cleared of any debris , maybe dried and even repaired the next day . |
| 15 | ‘ The experience gained meant that some continuity persisted , even thought the next tour in 1937 was rather late in coming , ’ Weir said . |
| 16 | To his credit , or possibly his ignorance , Michael then immediately filmed the next scene , where he had to be seen on the underside of a fire engine 's turntable ladder twenty feet up in the air , being lowered to the ground . |
| 17 | He glanced down one passage to no avail , then tried the next , just soon enough to catch the porter emerging from the third door along . |
| 18 | Then came the next tier of management . |
| 19 | Gallacher ignored the threats , played a blinder , then woke the next day with the intention of visiting friends in Belfast . |
| 20 | At the back of the house was a lock-up gaol and if any one caused any trouble they were locked up for the night , then transported the next morning by the local ‘ taxi ’ , which was a horse and cart , to the police station at Brough to be tried . |
| 21 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
| 22 | However , he never did , and friends claim the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 23 | However , he never did , and friends claim that the poor man had come across the result by accident and then spent the next six years until his death trying to find the combination again . |
| 24 | They then arranged the next meeting for a week later , Thursday , 21st May , 1857 , and adjourned . |
| 25 | Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section . |
| 26 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 27 | This combined traversal first collected all the paragraphs from links emanating from a node ( this is the breadth-first part ) and then chose the next node by a depth-first principle . |
| 28 | Rawson then bowled the next ball wide of the stumps before joining his team in a frantic dash for the pavilion . |