Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] 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 | Tom and Mr Fletcher fixed the next flat piece onto the front of the shelter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Seb spent the next few days wrestling with very tangled emotions . |
| 10 | The hot and humid weather that had been suffocating Paris continued the next two days . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
| 16 | Lothar and Charles spent the next six weeks in manoeuvre and countermanoeuvre . |
| 17 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |