Example sentences of "[vb past] the next [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he picked up Darmid 's sword and met the next grypesh with a savage thrust that disembowelled it . |
| 2 | The Civil Aviation Committee met the next day and challenged two parts of the draft agreement that the Americans had inserted : the right of civil aircraft to use the US-leased bases in the Caribbean and Atlantic , and the right of US airlines to ‘ change gauge ’ in Britain , that is , switch to smaller aircraft for flights going on as part of the fifth freedom . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She unlocked the next room which had stood empty for months . |
| 5 | Actually I , I passed the next star test . |
| 6 | I removed the completed bowl at this stage and finished with three coats of Danish oil , the first two applied within a half an hour of each other , the final coat applied the next morning and allowed to dry until the evening . |
| 7 | A point of interest to myself is that our driver , Howard Bounds , shared the next bed to me during my last stay in hospital . |
| 8 | well we had one more tour after that , erm , but the and would really of referred to of stayed , made the next tour longer than two |
| 9 | The absence of the usually unfailing sun-wind made the next Saturday oppressively hot . |
| 10 | Albert panicked , and put the receiver down , which made the next attempt more difficult . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Two months after that , Lady Amelia had a baby son , who became the next Lord Burlesdon and the head of the Rassendyll family . |
| 13 | ‘ , we are told , and when the archdeacon who rebuked her became the next bishop of Carthage she had her majordomo appointed as a rival , with the support of the main body of Numidian bishops . |
| 14 | The taxi driver , who asked only to be known as Terry , became the next victim of the knifeman . |
| 15 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 16 | Blanche waited for the door to click before she asked the next question . |
| 17 | In the brief pause before the auctioneer announced the next lot , Emily spotted her father near the back of the gathering , and , heads down as though they were in a cinema , she and Mungo scuttled round and crouched next to him . |
| 18 | You were looking a bit sorry for yourself when we came back cos he buys flowers and he gives , so he 'll buy them the day before , I got the next day , there their making in all that |
| 19 | I was not aware that circumcision might be a painful , controversial , and perhaps an unethical procedure , but I planned the next attempt in compliance with the editor 's requests . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We tried the next couple of villages also before the truth dawned . |
| 22 | I tried the next time with a very dapper man , all pinstripes and umbrella . |
| 23 | There were no indications that the original hypothesis was incorrect ( ie that the information requirements of an organisation could be derived by the progressive decomposition of a primary task model ) , and the study entered the next phase of deciding how the information base could be used in practice . |
| 24 | He entered the next carriage , his hand gripped tightly around the railing , and moved slowly down the corridor until he reached his own compartment . |
| 25 | She fussed , gave advice which she laughingly contradicted the next minute , and talked enthusiastically about the business she had just initiated . |
| 26 | He caught the next train and arrived in Oxford , dead on schedule . ’ |
| 27 | Agatha phoned the next day and said : ‘ You never told me the Queen had been . ’ |
| 28 | Anyway , Jennifer phoned the next morning and told me it was all over . |
| 29 | Bronwen reported the next day that Owen had slept deeply for about six hours , and for the first time in ages had not woken up several times during the night to go to the toilet . |
| 30 | Gower stroked the next ball , after the unseemly delay , through point for four with a kind of moral fervour , but Gooch fell before the interval , given out by umpire Shepherd , who felt the legside lifter had touched the captain 's glove . |