Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A hasty cut and stitch job by the Italian organisers restores Arab pride when a five-pointer was unfurled the next day . |
| 32 | His Essay towards a New Theory of Vision was published in 1709 , and was followed the next year by his master-work , A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge . |
| 33 | There was bickering the next morning too . |
| 34 | The radio was reclaimed the next morning . |
| 35 | She did , and my appendix was removed the next morning . |
| 36 | She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day . |
| 37 | A trade co-operation agreement was signed the next day . |
| 38 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 39 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |
| 40 | It was the perfect moment to arrive in the city where I was to spend the next year . |
| 41 | Among the many notable prisoners taken was Charles , duke of Orléans , who was to spend the next quarter of a century an honourable captive in England , developing a considerable talent as a poet in both French and English . |
| 42 | She was organising the next bout , to take place soon after the election , shortly before she died . |
| 43 | The procedure was repeated the next day , 24 February , the Germans suffering unexpectedly high casualties but remorselessly , if slowly , pushing the French back . |
| 44 | Li Yuan-tzu was elected the next day as Vice-President with 93 per cent of the votes , receiving 602 out of 644 cast . |
| 45 | The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit and was extubated the next morning . |
| 46 | When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler . |
| 47 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 48 | ‘ His pass was confiscated the next day and that meant he could n't get into the base to work and lost his job . |