Example sentences of "was [vb pp] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Posters appeared in some villages advertising what was intended the next market day and calling on " one and all " to join in . |
| 2 | The patient was discharged the next day . |
| 3 | This leaven was added the next time baking bread was done . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The young dog was shot the next day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He died in London 13 January 1613 , and was buried the next day at All Saints the Less . |
| 8 | It was agreed the next day that I was run down . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Endill was tired the next day but slept underneath the floorboards in History class . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They left the dance together and her body was found the next morning in a deep pool of water near a local footpath . |
| 15 | Jones was arrested the next day and admitted responsibility . |
| 16 | A hasty cut and stitch job by the Italian organisers restores Arab pride when a five-pointer was unfurled the next day . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The radio was reclaimed the next morning . |
| 19 | She did , and my appendix was removed the next morning . |
| 20 | She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day . |
| 21 | A trade co-operation agreement was signed the next day . |
| 22 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |
| 23 | The procedure was repeated the next day , 24 February , the Germans suffering unexpectedly high casualties but remorselessly , if slowly , pushing the French back . |
| 24 | Li Yuan-tzu was elected the next day as Vice-President with 93 per cent of the votes , receiving 602 out of 644 cast . |
| 25 | The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit and was extubated the next morning . |
| 26 | ‘ His pass was confiscated the next day and that meant he could n't get into the base to work and lost his job . |