Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | Above all I would like to thank the sector for your friendship and warm support , and I have every confidence that Sir Jeffrey , my successor , I assume that resolution two will go through unan , unanimously , will be car , will be able to carry forward with your warm support , the vision I tried to outline for the next year . |
| 3 | We 'd decided to have a ploughman 's lunch or some such at a likely-looking pub we 'd seen in the next village . |
| 4 | The welcoming party for Ali Bacher , first off the plane , and the 94-strong South African party was only a small one , comprising Jamaican and West Indian Board officials and assorted media , but all present knew they had witnessed a piece of history that only recently seemed destined for the next century . |
| 5 | by the time I 'd got to the next one |
| 6 | If you spotted a smart black-and-white magpie in a field , that was certainly one , but if , when you 'd walked into the next field , you saw another , was that two or another one ? |
| 7 | She seemed to skate over the next part of her story , but Julia grasped the salient part , which was that one of the English officers who fought with the Italians had fallen in love with her , promised to marry her and secretly made love to her . |
| 8 | Suddenly , I was on the top of one wave as she came thundering over the next . |
| 9 | Helen had been hurt by Jochen [ Rindt 's ] death but somehow , perhaps because it was near the end of the racing year , we both seemed to mend before the next season got underway . |
| 10 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
| 11 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 12 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 13 | Gavin Laird , the general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union , said that it was the last ‘ burning issue ’ Labour needed to resolve before the next election . |
| 14 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 15 | How she managed to get through the next few hours mystified her . |
| 16 | A major life-extension programme was carried out on nearly half the Class 37 fleet , with a number of variants designed specifically for freight haulage and expected to survive into the next century . |
| 17 | With atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide expected to double in the next century , plants would open the stomata through which they breathe for shorter periods reducing the transpiration of water and providing less water for cloud formation . |
| 18 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 19 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 20 | We had to wait until the next day before we got the results . |
| 21 | I had to go to the next yard to fetch Jonesy . |
| 22 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 23 | In view of what Marc had said about the next few days , Sarella was surprised when he sought her out before dinner . |
| 24 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 25 | She could work with Cavell , Maria had decided by the next afternoon . |
| 26 | We had to walk from the next stop . |
| 27 | After Tvrtko 's death the Bosnian nobles quarrelled and , although the Kotromanić family continued to reign for the next seventy years , their power rapidly declined . |
| 28 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 29 | Joined by the rest of the Brigade ( two battalions ) , it continued fighting for the next six days . |
| 30 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |