Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] the next " in BNC.
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1 | 21–7 Between 200 and 300 Glasgow Fair visitors were brought by the steamer " Islay " and more were expected the next two days . |
2 | Iida 's remains were buried the next day . |
3 | We were awakened the next morning by Sir Henry Bowyer 's rough arrival accompanied by at least a dozen likely-looking rogues . |
4 | The police were called the next day . |
5 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
6 | During his rapid exit from the balloon carriage Sadler had lost both his signal flags , but these were found the next day in a field near Burton Pedwardine by Mr Edward Robinson , together with Sadler 's hat , cushion and , understandably , his broken thermometer ! |
7 | El País reported that " a dozen " Nahda leaders were detained the next day . |
8 | The formal US indictments were issued the next day . |
9 | But limited partnerships are rare , private companies , which were sanctioned the next year by the Companies Act 198 , having proved more popular . |
10 | Posters appeared in some villages advertising what was intended the next market day and calling on " one and all " to join in . |
11 | The patient was discharged the next day . |
12 | This leaven was added the next time baking bread was done . |
13 | The clause on which they finally agreed and which was adopted the next day as part of the constitution , read instead : Persons who can hear , taking an active interest in the welfare or education of the deaf and dumb , shall be eligible for admission to ordinary membership on the recommendation of five ordinary members of the Association . |
14 | The young dog was shot the next day . |
15 | The headline in the London Evening Standard 's report — I 'm sorry , says man on murder charge — was transformed the next day into the more familiar story of girl hitch-hiker getting herself into trouble . |
16 | He died in London 13 January 1613 , and was buried the next day at All Saints the Less . |
17 | It was agreed the next day that I was run down . |
18 | On Soviet television on Sept. 4 Shevardnadze ( a Georgian ) called on Gamsakhurdia to " restore dialogue " with his opponents , but was accused the next day by Gamsakhurdia of being " an enemy of Georgia " , involved with Sigua and Khoshtaria in a " plot " organized by the " communist mafia " . |
19 | Susanna was born the next May . |
20 | Endill was tired the next day but slept underneath the floorboards in History class . |
21 | She was woken the next morning by Bridget , who appeared in her room carrying a cup of tea and a copy of the Sunday Herald . |
22 | They left the dance together and her body was found the next morning in a deep pool of water near a local footpath . |
23 | Witnesses working near the river bank in Gloucester where a body was found the next day , told the jury at Bristol Crown Court of hearing screams . |
24 | Her body was found the next February and a man , hospital radiographer Frederic Blancke , was charged with murder . |
25 | Just as the family was beginning to get over the tragedy , Dawn 's older sister , Sheila , 6 , vanished from home and was found the next day , drowned in a canal . |
26 | In the 1977 US survey , people were asked to give the order of importance that they attached to various different types of disclosure information about credit terms , and more ( 62 per cent ) mentioned APRs first than even the size of their monthly payment ( which was judged the next most important ) . |
27 | Jones was arrested the next day and admitted responsibility . |
28 | A hasty cut and stitch job by the Italian organisers restores Arab pride when a five-pointer was unfurled the next day . |
29 | His Essay towards a New Theory of Vision was published in 1709 , and was followed the next year by his master-work , A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge . |
30 | The radio was reclaimed the next morning . |