Example sentences of "he [vb past] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interviewer hesitated , and when he asked the next question he sounded faintly embarrassed . |
| 2 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 3 | He let the next ball go by outside leg stump . |
| 4 | He caught the next train back to Addis Ababa and the following day sent me a wire : " Can not come . " |
| 5 | He caught the next train and arrived in Oxford , dead on schedule . ’ |
| 6 | He entered the next carriage , his hand gripped tightly around the railing , and moved slowly down the corridor until he reached his own compartment . |
| 7 | He felt , when he woke the next morning , that his life was at an end-a complete disaster . |
| 8 | Sharpe had to duck under a low chestnut branch as he turned the next corner to see , five hundred yards ahead of him , the wide village street . |
| 9 | We walked past three doors , then he opened the next and showed me into the study . |
| 10 | He obtained the next job for which he applied and , as far as I know , has had a successful career subsequently . |
| 11 | She stood there for hours watching the stonemason so that when he returned the next day , he gave her a piece of stone and two chisels . |
| 12 | According to Redgrave 's biographer , he returned the next day with twenty-five new lines , although Martin Browne denied this . |
| 13 | By 1848 the Count had become an important figure in the administration of Hungary but the prospects of civil war and revolution led to his nervous collapse and he spent the next decade in an asylum . |
| 14 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 15 | Cripps 's loss to soccer was rugby 's gain ; he spent the next twenty years teaching that branch of football to schoolboys . |
| 16 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 17 | He spent the next 40 minutes telling MPs how he plans to reverse the appalling situation . |
| 18 | He spent the next six months travelling . |
| 19 | He spent the next few minutes wondering how much more of Henri 's ungiven advice he would be following . |
| 20 | He spent the next twenty-seven years at Elmswell , overseeing his farms and estate , building a new house in the 1630s , and only occasionally visiting places out of the district . |
| 21 | He spent the next five years in exile at the court of the Scottish king , Malcolm ( recte Edgar , q.v. ) , and with an unnamed Welsh bishop . |
| 22 | By this time , as a man of modest but independent means , he spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey . |
| 23 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |
| 24 | He spent the next ten years in a classic investigation of thallium and its properties . |
| 25 | Quickly switching the conversation , he addressed the next remark to Harry , saying , ‘ I wonder how the Duke is feeling today ; I wonder if he still thinks the exchange was worth it . ’ |
| 26 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 27 | While the Scot won the opening frame he lost the next three , but his highest break of the match , 74 , suggested Hallett had a problem on his hands . |
| 28 | But he warned the next would be bigger and would bear directly on what a Labour government could do . |
| 29 | But he called the next one , too . |
| 30 | Then he grabbed the next branch above his head and pulled himself up again . |