Example sentences of "spent the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | We established a ‘ base-camp ’ and spent the next two days exploring this bizarre landscape . |
| 2 | Adrian spent the next hour nursing his fist and repeating over and over and over again , I hit him , I hit him , at last I 've done something . |
| 3 | A pewter tankard at his elbow , Wexford spent the next couple of hours studying Hatton 's log book and Mrs Hatton 's engagement diary . |
| 4 | Others , mainly the girls , spent the next hour or so exercising the jaw muscles — until the great white chief shouted , ‘ OK ; time to get together ’ . |
| 5 | I spent the next few days talking to Cabinet colleagues — all of whom shared my view that the demand was preposterous — and then went to see the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I attended a Wagner performance that evening , high in the gallery , and spent the next day clambering around Gaudi 's towers of the Sagrada Familia . |
| 8 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 9 | Sam spent the next morning poking his broom everywhere it was wanted and a few places it was n't until he had swept up several titbits of very interesting information . |
| 10 | I never even learned the name of the man I spent the next two days with . |
| 11 | I am allowed a say on this question of standing up at football matches because I first planted my feet on the terraces at Barnsley when I was five and spent the next 15 years or more rooted to the spot . |
| 12 | The Ely four , Stewart Seymour , Kevin King and David Bell and skipped by Greg Harlow , trailed 12-1 after five ends , bounced back with a five and spent the next two hours in an effort to catch up . |
| 13 | Amid chants of ‘ Get the beasts ’ and ‘ You 're going to die ’ , they spent the next several hours dragging their victims from their barricaded cells , humiliating them and beating them up . |
| 14 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 15 | Afterwards we flew back to Greg 's house and we spent the next week working real hard . |
| 16 | Swallowing hard on the disappointment , Andy spent the next few years taking even more blows on the chin . |
| 17 | Cripps 's loss to soccer was rugby 's gain ; he spent the next twenty years teaching that branch of football to schoolboys . |
| 18 | We all spent the next day together . |
| 19 | At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England . |
| 20 | William was given command of a schooner and spent the next 6 years trading on Lake Erie . |
| 21 | CONSCIOUS of being lesbian at the age of eleven , I spent the next seventeen years repressing my true self , taking much spontaneity from my character . |
| 22 | Prince Charles spent the next few months planning a new invasion , to be financed by the sale of his late mother 's jewels . |
| 23 | I spent the next four and a half months in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Saddam Hussein 's human shield , with nothing except my hand luggage and the clothes ( and shoes ) that I was wearing when the flight left London . |
| 24 | Three days later Mrs Holt arrived in town , and they spent the next three days together before she left . |
| 25 | George spent the next weeks showing Bob Lamb around the herds of sheep . |
| 26 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 27 | Spent the next ten minutes itemising all aforesaid so-and-so 's deficiencies . |
| 28 | The constable spent the next 10 minutes fighting for his life . |
| 29 | He spent the next 40 minutes telling MPs how he plans to reverse the appalling situation . |
| 30 | This was so important that he and some colleagues spent the next two years computing and checking their calculations until they were totally satisfied with the correctness of the result . |