Example sentences of "he [verb] the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wins the next two legs , today and tomorrow , his total prize money as overall Grade A champion will only amount to £970 — but he will have the opportunity to compete at Wembley for the rest of the week . |
| 2 | What he would have really profited from at the beginning , he believes , was a coach and it was only some time after he joined the Vets movement that he found the next best thing , encouragement and advice from a distinguished Vet member of Cambridge Harriers , David Coward . |
| 3 | Only Sussex , not yet exposed to his political style , offered a refuge and he spent the next five years there , converting the natives and negotiating his return . |
| 4 | He spent the next five years in exile at the court of the Scottish king , Malcolm ( recte Edgar , q.v. ) , and with an unnamed Welsh bishop . |
| 5 | He spent the next six months travelling . |
| 6 | By this time , as a man of modest but independent means , he spent the next fifteen years mapping the Isle of Anglesey . |
| 7 | He spent the next twenty-seven years at Elmswell , overseeing his farms and estate , building a new house in the 1630s , and only occasionally visiting places out of the district . |
| 8 | He spent the next ten years in a classic investigation of thallium and its properties . |
| 9 | He spent the next few minutes wondering how much more of Henri 's ungiven advice he would be following . |
| 10 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 11 | Cripps 's loss to soccer was rugby 's gain ; he spent the next twenty years teaching that branch of football to schoolboys . |
| 12 | He spent the next 40 minutes telling MPs how he plans to reverse the appalling situation . |
| 13 | Within a year he had so impressed Telford that he was invited to become his assistant in London , where he spent the next three years , until his father 's illness in the summer of 1824 prompted Telford to send him back to Inverness ; two months later his father died . |
| 14 | While the Scot won the opening frame he lost the next three , but his highest break of the match , 74 , suggested Hallett had a problem on his hands . |
| 15 | She hoped he 'd stop when he reached the next supporting strut . |
| 16 | The two times world champion , now rated No. 72 , trailed Stevens 5-4 overnight but , without having to produce his best form , he won the next six frames in succession to win their third qualifying round tie . |
| 17 | Unable to find one with the same outward-opening flap , he did the next best thing and took an average price for similar letter-boxes and forwarded you a cheque for this amount . |