Example sentences of "she [vb past] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | How she got through the next day , she could n't remember . |
| 2 | She hopped over the next puddle , then the next . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you alone ? ’ asked Helen , when she phoned through the next afternoon to the College of Further Education staff common room during Greg 's free period . |
| 4 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 5 | She turned to the next sheet of cuttings , and began to read an article from the Sun . |
| 6 | She turned to the next cutting in the hope of finding a less lurid account of the case . |
| 7 | With a sigh she turned to the next patient , smiling as a young woman carried a small child into the room . |
| 8 | That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years . |
| 9 | Unless she died in the next few weeks — and why should she die ? — it could be the end of his life on the headland , the end of his organization , the end of all he had planned and hoped to do . |
| 10 | Quickly she went into the next room , returning a moment later with a small linen basket . |
| 11 | She suddenly wanted to throw something at him , anything , needing to hurt him as she was hurting , but could n't actually reach his ambitious heart , so she aimed for the next best thing : his self-respect . |
| 12 | She now rubbed her hand over the oilcloth as she waited for the next question . |
| 13 | Twice she was in the very act , loaded fork in her hand , when her breathing quickened , her mouth drew into a forbidding shiver of disgust , and she waited for the next signal to come round . |
| 14 | She ran to the next comer with her head down , past the boarded-up house and the gate where a dog 's nose pushed under a loose board . |
| 15 | ‘ And you , ’ she said to the next one . |
| 16 | Even if she jumped on the next space shuttle to Mars it would n't make any difference . |
| 17 | When she retired from the RCM in 1948 she went on to run the Violet Melchet Infant Welfare Centre near Sloane Square , a job she held for the next twenty years . |