Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] next [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 2 | However , the Vauxhall Sport result , where he was only beaten by the official team Subarus of Richard Burns and Alister McRae and finished ahead of the new Ford Escort Cosworths of Gwyndaf Evans , has provided sufficient encouragement for him to tackle the next round of the Open series , the Pirelli International on April 17/18 . |
| 3 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 4 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 5 | It could mean him missing the next match as a result . |
| 6 | Then it would be up to him to make the next move . |
| 7 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 8 | He let the next ball go by outside leg stump . |
| 9 | He caught the next train and arrived in Oxford , dead on schedule . ’ |
| 10 | He entered the next carriage , his hand gripped tightly around the railing , and moved slowly down the corridor until he reached his own compartment . |
| 11 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 12 | He felt , when he woke the next morning , that his life was at an end-a complete disaster . |
| 13 | Sharpe had to duck under a low chestnut branch as he turned the next corner to see , five hundred yards ahead of him , the wide village street . |
| 14 | He obtained the next job for which he applied and , as far as I know , has had a successful career subsequently . |
| 15 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 16 | According to Redgrave 's biographer , he returned the next day with twenty-five new lines , although Martin Browne denied this . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Quickly switching the conversation , he addressed the next remark to Harry , saying , ‘ I wonder how the Duke is feeling today ; I wonder if he still thinks the exchange was worth it . ’ |
| 19 | He regards the next phase of his career with Knowsley Contract Services as a crucial test of his whole management philosophy , since he admits he is operating in an area where he has no technical expertise or background . |
| 20 | Then he grabbed the next branch above his head and pulled himself up again . |
| 21 | Just to see what it would feel like , Boy tried hard to copy this attitude during the film he watched the next afternoon . |
| 22 | However , it ran out in its turn as he reached the next storey , occupied , Sunil had told him , by upper servants . |
| 23 | He did not pause to rest when he reached the next hedge , but continued on , driving his exhausted body ruthlessly onwards . |
| 24 | And he went the next ones had better be better , right , the next ones were worse |
| 25 | He died the next day and became stew . |
| 26 | He died the next day , 11 March 1395 . |
| 27 | In 1734 he was appointed Bishop of Cloyne , eventually moving to Oxford in 1752 , where he died the next year . |
| 28 | When he emerged the next morning he had changed . |
| 29 | When he emerged the next morning he found not uncertainty but widespread consternation . |
| 30 | The idea being that if he spends the next couple of weeks explaining to all the other people there why he ca n't keep his hands off women he wo n't want to be unfaithful any more and his wife will forgive him . |