Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the next " in BNC.

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1 Well old Jack er , he di used to do the post round and he lived in the next cottage
2 And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . '
3 As he tiptoed to the next flight he was distracted by a dreadful howling sound , worse than Plutarch at her most aggrieved .
4 I 've actually seen erm er been in a workshop as a participant where a chap who was excellent at this had what he did was while while the participants were doing some sort of an exercise he was actually making these tiny notes up in the top corner for himself so that when he when he came to the next sort of section that he wanted he 'd he 'd got he 'd got the odd notes just up there in the corner .
5 Cos he came round the next week and talked to me , he had a quick chat with me for about three hours !
6 He turned to the next item on his desk , a note on top of a copy-pad which said : ‘ Morley stpd lttle prck .
7 The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his .
8 Little is known of Francis Wright 's early years , but in 1830 , on the retirement of his father , he became the senior partner in Butterley , which he dominated for the next forty-three years .
9 Before the move he had already been planting exotics in the sheltered garden with a slope to the south-west ; an ideal situation for the rare trees he collected over the next twenty years .
10 Instead he served for the next three yearswith a merchant shipping company .
11 These , combined with a particular interest in curative education for children with mental and physical handicaps , he developed over the next eleven years in the course of attachments to children 's hospitals and homes in Austria , Switzerland , and Silesia ( in Germany at that time ) , and , by 1936 , in private practice in Vienna .
12 In 1837 he was apprenticed to his uncle James S. Stirling at Dundee foundry , where he worked for the next six years and where some locomotives were built for the Arbroath and Forfar Railway which influenced his own later designs .
13 and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning .
14 He bit off the next words with an oath and pushed her away .
15 When he screened it privately for the director of the Cannes Film Festival , he was delighted with the reaction and was duly invited to exhibit Drive , He Said at the next festival in May 1971 .
16 Li Yuan swallowed , sensing that everything depended on what he said in the next few moments ; that his father had not quite made up his mind , even now .
17 This was very well attended and a committee , with himself as chairman ( a post he held for the next thirty-six years ) , was elected and set to work .
18 In 1938 he was elected president of the International Youth Hostel Federation , an office which he held for the next twelve years .
19 He pointed to the next building .
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