Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 2 | Forms are stored in separate boxes according to their accession ( ’ D ’ ) numbers ; thus all of the D 21,000 series were in one box , and the D ‘ , 000s were in the next one , and so on . |
| 3 | She and her husband , Jan , were on the next farm to Bruce , and they had looked on Bruce as a son . |
| 4 | Richard Kahan , the Battery Park commissioner , awarded Olympia & York the contract when Reichmann guaranteed payment of several hundred million on the city 's bonds which were due the next year . |
| 5 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 6 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 7 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 8 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 9 | Once she 'd received her recall from Lord C , she was aboard the next trans-Atlantic seaplane from New York to Lisbon . |
| 10 | DeFries was in the Christian Dior suite , Marc Bolan was in the Marc Bolan suite , David was in the next one , Jagger was there and all the Stones , and every night was party night . |
| 11 | My wife , meanwhile , was in the next cubicle with a fractured sternum and collarbone . |
| 12 | Even as Andrew was assuring journalists at Sunninghill that he was hopeful he and Fergie could get back together , the Texan was in the next room , phoning around Fleet Street . |
| 13 | He was in the next incubator at Guy 's hospital to first victim Dean Bunn . |
| 14 | Myeloski , who was in the next room , heard him return . |
| 15 | It was in the next stage , when writing came to carry an increasing proportion of law , learning , religion and history , previously carried in oral forms , that very marked cultural divisions , already socially present in preliterate societies , became , as it were , technically stabilized . |
| 16 | Trembling and a little afraid , she gently struggled , vaguely aware that her husband was in the next room . |
| 17 | Zurachina was in the next room ; Burun could hear her ordering the slaves to unpack the boxes of bed linen . |
| 18 | Last night I dreamed I used a chair at the hairdresser 's as a toilet and Maggie Smith was in the next chair . |
| 19 | And he boobed when he sneaked off to an isolated toilet for a crafty fag — because his foreman was in the next cubicle . |
| 20 | Mr Sargent was in the next door garden , sitting in a deck chair and reading the newspaper . |
| 21 | It was a risk , for she might well have run headlong into him on the first floor landing , but she had luck , and was round the next turn of the stairs when she checked and froze against the wall , hearing his rapid steps on the oak treads below her . |
| 22 | The upshot of this meeting was that Muldoon phoned Mueller and Klepner was on the next plane to Detroit with photostat copies of Mark 's plan , for Mueller 's eyes only . |
| 23 | And you see doing th er that er junior the junior school In the earlier junior school we were at the church as well , which was on the next street , St John 's Church at Mansfield . |
| 24 | The Kurhotel was on the next block , a 1950s five-storey tower of glass and unpainted concrete that had once been the pride of East German architecture . |
| 25 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 26 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |
| 27 | If they were looking for more cancer then surely the place to look was at the next vulnerable point ? |
| 28 | Princess Margaret was at the next table with Mr and Mrs Paul Newall , . |
| 29 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |