Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the effort proved too much to sustain and Reykjavik scored the next 13 points to put the issue beyond doubt . |
| 3 | Swallowing hard on the disappointment , Andy spent the next few years taking even more blows on the chin . |
| 4 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 5 | Mrs Molesworth spent the next four years in France and Germany , but returned to England permanently in 1883 . |
| 6 | The tournament proved to be Gascoigne 's finest hour … he became a superstar overnight … and Jane spent the next 2 years helping him arrange a multi million pound transfer to the Rome club Lazio . |
| 7 | Lorton told Tolby to take the next left turn . |
| 8 | Zara Wolseley took the first set of her Under-18 match with Jo Ward 6-4 but at the end of a hard encounter saw Ward claim the next two sets 6-3 6-2 for victory . |
| 9 | Tom and Mr Fletcher fixed the next flat piece onto the front of the shelter . |
| 10 | Mark Sanders spent the next few days in his office , working late into the night to finalise the ten year European Business Plan and to summarise the massive document into a sixty minute presentation illustrated by thirty slides . |
| 11 | Seb spent the next few days wrestling with very tangled emotions . |
| 12 | The hot and humid weather that had been suffocating Paris continued the next two days . |
| 13 | In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph at the end of his second year as Archbishop , Dr George Carey said the next 12 months would be difficult for the Church as it focused on the ordination of women to the priesthood . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Boccara/Boucherit of France had the next fastest time but they were seen to be wash hanging , not for the first time at this level , and a protest was upheld , posing the question why the umpires Riccardo Guala and Glyde Brytt had given white flags . |
| 16 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
| 17 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
| 18 | Lothar and Charles spent the next six weeks in manoeuvre and countermanoeuvre . |
| 19 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 20 | Suppose the worst comes to the worst and Wilko becomes the next English manager who would take over at Leeds ? |
| 21 | Third place went to Johnnie Rea who was the only rider likely to catch King in the championship but even if Rea wins the next four rounds — both at Bishopscourt — King can not be caught . |
| 22 | As for the future , McIntosh says the next few years will be easier . |
| 23 | Although he can not escape from the linearity of language ( see 7.2 , 7.5.3 ) , James does the next best thing , which is to fasten our attention initially on the most immediate feature of Pemberton 's predicament : his uncomfortable sense of indecision , and then to expatiate on it so that by the time we have threaded our way through two paragraphs , we have built up a sensitive grasp of the coexisting intricacies and ironies of that predicament ( the ironies will concern us in section C below ) . |