Example sentences of "they [vb past] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They returned the next day with the coffin and four men from the workhouse who were to carry it . |
| 2 | To imagine what it would have been like a hundred years ago , when men were swinging over the cliffs on ropes made of horsehair , and climbing the soaring pinnacles of Stac Lee and Stac an Armin to harvest the gugas , the young gannets which would ensure they survived the next winter . |
| 3 | I separated them but they died the next day . |
| 4 | Well yeah the wind fell but I 'm not really sure whether they went the next day or the day after that I ca n't remember . |
| 5 | They went the next morning . |
| 6 | When they reached the next chamber he extinguished it and exchanged it for the torch . |
| 7 | They reached the next landing and swung themselves around it , clambering up the next set of stairs . |
| 8 | The opposition Social Democratic Party ( SPD ) had restated that if they won the next election they would seek a complete ban on low-level flying . |
| 9 | Sweden 's Maria Gretzer , on Marcopille , was one but they had the next fence down and were among 10 sharing third place with four faults . |
| 10 | They married the next year and in the summer of 1991 bought their home in Upton . |