Example sentences of "[vb past] the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Following the opening of the Deviation in 1978 , the rebuilding of the old line between Tan y Grisiau and Blaenau became the next major goal for the Railway . |
| 3 | Some are based on a wrong premise : I remember a Labour one in 1979 which pre-supposed that the world would think Mrs Thatcher was a bogeywoman and said something like : ‘ The day you forgot to vote , Mrs Thatcher became the next prime minister . ’ |
| 4 | So she said I 'm sorry , so I got the next nearest , I just can not waste any more time . |
| 5 | He unsuccessfully fought the next three elections . |
| 6 | Tom and Mr Fletcher fixed the next flat piece onto the front of the shelter . |
| 7 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 8 | But the effort proved too much to sustain and Reykjavik scored the next 13 points to put the issue beyond doubt . |
| 9 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 10 | Yet she dreaded the next few hours . |
| 11 | The acquisition of those two characters constituted the next great evolutionary breakthrough . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Doherty was arrested in New York in June , 1983 , and spent the next nine years fighting extradition . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | By this time , as a man of modest but independent means , he spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey . |
| 18 | We established a ‘ base-camp ’ and spent the next two days exploring this bizarre landscape . |
| 19 | I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was so important that he and some colleagues spent the next two years computing and checking their calculations until they were totally satisfied with the correctness of the result . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The constable spent the next 10 minutes fighting for his life . |
| 26 | Martyn and I spent the next 10 days camping on the largest of the islands , sharing it with 30 pairs of geese . |
| 27 | She spent the next 18 months putting a brave face on her illness , with lots of loving support from George . |
| 28 | He spent the next six months travelling . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |