Example sentences of "what [vb past] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did , for what seemed like the next million hours . |
| 2 | What happened over the next few decades is not clear , but it seems likely that the fulling mills were dismantled and by 1801 , Stratford Mills were advertised for sale , solely as a corn mill . |
| 3 | Like the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine over 50 years before , what happened in the next few hours or days has remained one of the mountain 's unfathomable secrets . |
| 4 | What happened in the next 15 minutes is hard to describe , but it was mind-blowing . |
| 5 | Wearying though the journey had been at the time — even humiliating in respect of his being drawn in a litter — in retrospect it seemed full of excitement , a time when one knew not what would happen next or what lay around the next corner . |
| 6 | His recollection of what lay behind the next step , the establishment of an ill-fated Royal Commission , is illuminating : |