Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twomey took away one plate and laid the next , in the centre of which a neat pile of spinach kept its cool shape immaculate . |
| 2 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 3 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 4 | She could have cried with relief when at last she passed the war memorial with the crucifix and realised the next track led to the farm . |
| 5 | He 'd stayed there ( ‘ in Didcart ’ ) much longer than he 'd intended ; and when finally he tore himself away from the Cornish Riviera and the Torbay Express he 'd walked back to Didcot Parkway Station at about five o'clock , and caught the next train back to Oxford , where he 'd , er , where he 'd had a quick drink in the Station Buffet . |
| 6 | Johns made a second-half appearance for the Reserves in a goalless draw at Darlington and caught the next train back to London . |
| 7 | The signalman at Holton le Moor box felt concerned and stopped the next train entering his section and asked the driver to stop at Claxby and see if everything was in order . |
| 8 | The bowler adjusted his line and dropped the next one on leg stump , on the half-volley . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that Bede , in order to synchronize diverse chronological tradition , ‘ considered the whole year of the Incarnation , in which a king died , as his last year and reckoned the next year of the Incarnation as the first of his successor ’ , so that if , for example , Oswiu died in 670 , the whole of 671 was Ecgfrith 's first year for Bede and the whole of 685 his fifteenth . |
| 10 | No one likes to be outsmarted , and the man who loses out once will be that much more aggressive and determined the next time , although others may react by refusing to deal with those that they do n't know and trust . |
| 11 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 12 | We established a ‘ base-camp ’ and spent the next two days exploring this bizarre landscape . |
| 13 | I attended a Wagner performance that evening , high in the gallery , and spent the next day clambering around Gaudi 's towers of the Sagrada Familia . |
| 14 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 15 | The Ely four , Stewart Seymour , Kevin King and David Bell and skipped by Greg Harlow , trailed 12-1 after five ends , bounced back with a five and spent the next two hours in an effort to catch up . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 17 | William was given command of a schooner and spent the next 6 years trading on Lake Erie . |
| 18 | But he missed his chance , and spent the next seven years trying to catch up on his lost opportunity . |
| 19 | The following evening we established base camp at 16,700fft and spent the next 28 days , in fairly unpredictable weather , climbing many of the graceful peaks that make up the Chong Kumdan massif . |
| 20 | Pound was not to escape lightly , however , and although he did not stand trial he was judged insane and spent the next eleven years in confinement . |
| 21 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 22 | He undertook only one expedition , travelling for five years aboard Beagle with all the modern conveniences of the day , and spent the next forty-five years as a hypochondriacal recluse in his English country mansion , churning out voluminous erudite papers for the scientific establishment , while privately pursuing his haunting suspicion that species diverged to become other species . |
| 23 | He sounded so convincing that Christina was reassured , and spent the next two hours sorting through hundreds of fabric samples , eventually choosing two co-ordinating Caribbean prints — a bold poinsettia pattern and a smaller toning design featuring hibiscus and humming-birds . |
| 24 | Comfort obeyed and spent the next two hours sitting beside Julia 's bed , watching her as she slept and bathing her face with cool water whenever she started to thrash about and mumble in delirium . |
| 25 | He joined up in the spring of 1940 and spent the next two years moving from camp to camp around England with the Royal Engineers . |
| 26 | Doherty was arrested in New York in June , 1983 , and spent the next nine years fighting extradition . |
| 27 | When the leadership of the Janata Dal parliamentary party and the post of Prime Minister went instead to V. P. Singh , he did little to hide his resentment , called the election " a conspiracy " , and spent the next 11 months assiduously courting anti-Singh members of the Janata Dal . |
| 28 | Edward allowed himself to be swept by his particular tide , and spent the next few hours in a blur of short motor trips , a meal , many drinks , shouted insults , conversations . |
| 29 | In 1975 I answered an ad in Spare Rib and spent the next nine years in a feminist photography group where politics as well as photography was on the agenda . |
| 30 | She had phoned in sick straight after she 'd got home that dreadful morning and spent the next couple of days trying to come to terms with what had happened , but there was no way she could ever accept what Luke had done , how he had used her in that unscrupulous way . |