Example sentences of "and [vb past] [prep] [art] next " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 2 | Once , desperate for a full night 's sleep , he had accepted her offer of a Valium , sluicing it down with his usual nightcap , and moved about the next morning like a diver walking on the seabed . |
| 3 | I left him there , and headed for the next block . |
| 4 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 5 | The plane was painted and repainted over the next 20 years with each change of ownership or brand of gasoline . |
| 6 | I went through the first pile , which seemed mainly to be stock orders from golf professionals around the country , and started on the next tray . |
| 7 | The headmaster got up and started towards the next gallery . |
| 8 | She snapped shut the diary and looked at the next piece of paper . |
| 9 | If I pressed my eye flat to the ground and looked into the next garden , the big bushes there with thick tall stems and flat leaves seemed part of a mysterious tropical forest . |
| 10 | If you had been making the movie on film , the term cut would have been taken literally because each piece of cine film is physically cut and spliced onto the next . |
| 11 | He swung one foot out , to the next joist , then put out one hand and felt for the next rafter ; he transferred his weight carefully . |
| 12 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 13 | She pursed her lips and reached for the next letter on the pile of personal correspondence brought in by her secretary . |
| 14 | Behind the scenes Paula slipped out of one outfit , letting it fall to the floor , and reached for the next , hanging in the correct order on her clothes rail . |
| 15 | With a smile he put the rifle down and reached for the next in the stack at his side . |
| 16 | I crumpled this ticket and waited for the next to be called . |
| 17 | William got two oars ready , and waited for the next wave . |
| 18 | We sat and waited for the next move , which turned out to be a visit from Younis and Bilal , insisting that Brian was trying to escape . |
| 19 | Doris smoothed a hand over her rounded knee and waited for the next question . |
| 20 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |
| 21 | The Special Needs Unit , attached to the College of Further Education , is actually decking their Special Needs Unit out as a rain forest , both before and after , so there 's the rainforest in all its glory , and then the rainforest after it 's been chopped down and destroyed in the next room , so the Special Needs Unit are really enjoying that . |
| 22 | A few minutes after Amiss had gone Sunil cleared up the fragments of cheese and biscuits , deposited them neatly in the waste-paper basket , picked up a couple of books and some blank paper and descended to the next storey . |
| 23 | The officer pointed towards the Hungarian frontier post and descended upon the next vehicle in the queue . |
| 24 | The crowd cheered their British player and hurried to the next tee , which we were just leaving . |
| 25 | Modigliani , of course , spotted her at once and came and sat at the next table . |