Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the next " in BNC.

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1 This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years .
2 Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top .
3 When the gravel was exposed , a stream of clean water flowed from it and continued to do so for the next 7 days .
4 They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display .
5 She had to think only of the next few hours .
6 Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there .
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