Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 2 | But it became obvious on the next pitch that even had I been so inspired we would not have progressed much further . |
| 3 | There he met Mohandas K. Gandhi , and spent much of the next 20 years acting as a conciliatory intermediary between Gandhi 's Congress Party and the British Government , latterly as a member of Gandhi 's entourage . |
| 4 | For example , at the peak of my running career in 1983 , I tore my plantar fasciitis and spent much of the next three years running at less than 100 per cent . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Chris Protheroe , who spent much of the next few months at the massive Boeing plant in Seattle , was trying to discover the origin of the fatigue fracture of the stabilizer rear spar top chord . |
| 6 | Jack spent most of the next day at the hospital , but he left around six , telling his mother he was going to meet a friend . |
| 7 | She spent most of the next half hour or so talking about the extended holiday to Patagonia she was planning , in an extremely loud voice and with an enthusiasm that would probably have embarrassed the Argentinian Tourist Board . |
| 8 | Not being detached for service in America , he probably spent most of the next few years in London . |
| 9 | LAURA JOINED THE WRNS IN 1944 FROM MERTHYR TYDFIL AND SPENT MOST OF THE NEXT TWO YEARS IN PARIS AND BRUSSELS . |
| 10 | Lucy spent most of the next couple of hours in the ground-floor utility room just behind the room where she 'd slept , sitting on the tiles against the wall and reading back numbers of magazines while her washing tumbled around in the Zanussi . |
| 11 | She spent most of the next day with her mother , but left before her father was due home , having checked that Ace was at his flat in London . |
| 12 | Lancashire had a point lead over Durham after the morning foursomes 3–2 but after new county champion Greg Helsby had halved his opening singles , they lost three of the next four , Southport and Ainsdale 's England international Raife Hutt , losing his to Craig Kilgour of Ravensworth 3&2 . |
| 13 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 14 | Her illness got worse in the next few days . |
| 15 | Faldo , who took five at the next short hole , added : ‘ I was only 10ft from the flag and I was in a hole . |
| 16 | As everyone was by then in a state of complete exhaustion they did little for the next two or three days except sleep . |
| 17 | These he assembled in his Chelsea Knackatory in 1695 , an establishment which proved popular for the next hundred years . |
| 18 | Sir Victor Sassoon , who had waited so long to own a Derby winner , won three of the next seven runnings . |
| 19 | Hendry , winner of six titles this season , shrugged off the setback and won three of the next four frames for his first Irish final in three years . |
| 20 | The Derbyshire professional dropped the first frame , but then won five of the next six . |
| 21 | Hendry , however , won two of the next three frames , compiling a break of 67 in the seventh to lead by one at tea . |
| 22 | Fishing waggler and maggot with a 22 hook to 1 lb bottom , John took most of his fish in the opening two hours to finish clear of in-form Howard Williams ( Buckley ) who had 5–6–0 at the next peg down . |
| 23 | Up 3–1 in the first set , she conceded 12 of the next 13 points and , at one stage in the second set , she lost another 14 consecutive points . |
| 24 | The white-and-red type remained unchanged for the next two centuries and it has elements of common origin with the Ayrshire of Scotland ( which is basically white with brown markings , especially on the neck and face ) . |
| 25 | She remained feverish over the next 14 hours with cold peripheries and an arterial blood pressure of 90/50 mm Hg . |