Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] for the next " in BNC.

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1 He told me , before I first went to England in 1947 , to make sure I came back for the next Australian season so that I would be eligible for selection for the '48 tour .
2 He was also afraid that when he turned up for the next practice , Amber and Jeopardy 's argument would be resolved , and he would no longer be required .
3 They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away .
4 Hunter 's approach inaugurated a wide-ranging debate about ‘ community power structures ’ between elite theorists and pluralists which rumbled on for the next two decades .
5 It looks as if he was initially working not from a completed score but from a sketch , and simply making sure that enough space was left for the movement before the copyist took over for the next one .
6 ‘ When you 've finished , it 'll look like a snooker table , ’ he said cheerfully , and , reversing deftly , he went back for the next lot .
7 We did so for the next three years .
8 From about 1750 , population increased yearly for the next 226 years ( figure 2.1 ) .
9 He lived and played and wrote and toured frenetically for the next couple of years , working night and day — with just a little help from Benzedrine , Methedrine , and anything else that would speed him up or slow him down .
10 The oil appeared spasmodically for the next hour while three other patients came in .
11 A few years later , the Farrers moved the flourishing business to premises over the Empire Meat Company in The Ox Row at the side of the Market Place and it continued there for the next thirty years .
12 The clean-living Clint waited hungrily for the next lift down to crack eggs-over-easy .
13 I sat up for the next few nights , my head poking out of the back skylight of the loft , my ears straining for the tinkle of glass breaking or muffled curses , or the more usual signal of the birds being disturbed and taking flight , but nothing more happened .
14 While Pavel set out for the next town on his list .
15 They had enough food and wine , and stayed there for the next five days .
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