Example sentences of "they [verb] the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeleine was still very young , Harry told himself as they drove the next ten miles in silence . |
| 2 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |
| 3 | ‘ He would , ’ Miss Hatherby chuckled , and they spent the next half hour discussing him . |
| 4 | Three days later Mrs Holt arrived in town , and they spent the next three days together before she left . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When they had described all that they could the film was started again and they watched the next five second section , and so on until an entire film had been described . |
| 7 | India 's fortunes changed dramatically as they won the next two Tests by large margins ; the third by 222 runs ( Chandrasekhar distinguishing himself with 6 for 52 in each innings with the ball and 0 in each innings with the bat ) , and the fourth by an innings and two runs . |
| 8 | Here they spend the next 5 months until the short rains in November when they gradually form columns and head back to the shortgrass plains . |
| 9 | These will have hatched from spawn laid far offshore , in water as deep as two hundred metres and , having spent their larval stage swimming free in the ocean , they spend the next two , sometimes three years inshore where they form an important part of the food for many sea-birds and also for seals and otters . |