Example sentences of "next [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can he assure me that the woodlands sold off by the commission will be accessible to all walkers , especially as after the next election a lot of Scottish Labour Members will have a lot of time to do a lot of walking ? |
| 2 | The next Committee a week later , elected 25 members ( 14 men , 11 ladies ) and learned the land conveyances were complete . |
| 3 | ‘ The very next evening a bailiff rang me up and , in a cool and calm way , he told me my home was about to be repossessed , ’ said a tearful Mrs Pratley last night . |
| 4 | The next evening a mob re-formed . |
| 5 | The next moment a door was flung violently open . |
| 6 | The next moment a head showed above water a yard or two from the boat . |
| 7 | Having plucked up the courage , he or she will find perhaps in the next room a course in Spanish or computer studies . |
| 8 | Upstairs we have a violinist , downstairs another one , in the next room a singing-master who gives lessons , and in the other room opposite ours an oboist . |
| 9 | The hotel was coming to life : in the next room a woman was scolding a child ; there were sounds of pots and pans being shifted about in the kitchen ; eventually , from down the corridor , came a rattling of cups and saucers . |
| 10 | Over the next decade a succession of ‘ Aldwych farces ’ would run for at least 200 performances each , and some for many more : A Cuckoo in the Nest ( 1925 ) , Rookery Nook ( 1926 ) , Thark ( 1928 ) , and Plunder ( 1928 ) alone occupied the years from 1925 to 1929 , and to them all Lynn would bring his own unique brand of wistful stooging : essentially he was the Stan Laurel [ q.v. ] to the much more bluff Hardy of Tom Walls , but Lynn 's timing , notably on staircases and when suddenly finding himself in the wrong room with the wrong people and quite often the wrong name , was a lesson in comic technique for generations of stage actors . |
| 11 | Next day a Policeman 's face all patched , |
| 12 | They had now suffered around 100 casualties , and next day a council of war agreed that the Highlanders should disperse to their homes while the Spaniards , conspicuous in their white and yellow uniforms , should surrender . |
| 13 | Next day a newspaper reporter asked the young men if they thought it would have been fair for the crowd to kill them . |
| 14 | Next day a joyrider who drove his dad 's car 31 blocks for an hour and a half was locked up in a psychiatric hospital . |
| 15 | Next day a mole asked to be allowed to join them . |
| 16 | The next day a Palestinian was shot dead by a soldier in the West Bank village of Salifit after he had refused to show his identity card . |
| 17 | But the next day a conversation with Gerard , the American Ambassador , convinced the Kaiser that the United States would indeed sever diplomatic relations if the sinkings continued , and , abruptly changing his mind , he promised an immediate ban on unrestricted submarine warfare . |
| 18 | I did n't have long to wait for my first recovery , because the next day a kid arrived at the house carrying the ghastly yellow-coated corpse of a starling . |
| 19 | The next day a motion was signed by members of Parliament from all parties , which led to an Act making the practice illegal in Britain in 1985 . |
| 20 | The next day a father broke his son 's arm . |
| 21 | On the next day a pardon was offered to the rebels , who withdrew from the city , although their leader Cade remained under arms , putting himself outside the scope of the pardon , and was killed on 12 July . |
| 22 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 23 | Midway through the next morning a footman and a supercilious lady 's maid arrived to collect her few belongings , so that the last traces of her life with them had gone . |
| 24 | The next morning a search-party found the corpses of the sand below . |
| 25 | The next morning a telephone call came through from Number 10 just before 8.30 a.m. calling a special Cabinet meeting at 9.45 to discuss the Falklands . |
| 26 | When Lucy woke next morning a quiver of excitement shot through her , telling her that the day would be different . |
| 27 | Next morning a team of Royal Ordnance workers was specially assembled for the job . |
| 28 | The next morning a letter came for Matthew . |
| 29 | Early next morning a telegram arrived . |
| 30 | Next week a sequel will be published called The Willows in Winter . |