Example sentences of "[conj] the next " in BNC.
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1 | The next generation or the next civilization will find a more plausible reason for beating a drum . |
2 | She did not go to the post office the next evening or the next . |
3 | The man whose place he took could have died the following week , or the next month . |
4 | She could put all but the most essential tasks off until the next day , or the next , and did it all the time . |
5 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
6 | The conflict was merely postponed to either later again in the meeting or the next one . |
7 | Artists have been hurrying to display their work , which should be deposited at the hall on Friday , May 8th from 7 to 9.30 p.m. or the next day from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m . |
8 | ‘ Yesterday it was only up to my knees : by tomorrow or the next day it 'll be this high at least . ’ |
9 | Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it . |
10 | Ask if there 's any chance of his getting it to Nell Richmond at Chateau Lake Louise by tomorrow night or the next morning . ’ |
11 | One of the parents involved in the Orkney case actually asked that the hearing should be held either that day or the next , to comply with this section of the Act . |
12 | It must have been that day or the next , Adam thought , that he or one of them , surely he , had first suggested the commune idea . |
13 | This tends not to be so , since people do n't feel the need to keep reintroducing the point that no one listened to the first time , or the next , or the next … . |
14 | This tends not to be so , since people do n't feel the need to keep reintroducing the point that no one listened to the first time , or the next , or the next … . |
15 | But all the explanation she gave me was , ‘ Now yow keep away from the lads an' never let 'em kiss yer or the next thing yer know yer 'll be 'avin' a baby . |
16 | Make sure they are all closed or the next bit wo n't work . |
17 | Whether it is an ambition to help Watsonians to win the Division One title or Scotland to win another Grand Slam or the next World Cup , you have to have in mind just what you seek to achieve . |
18 | The cannon therefore can not fire either this turn or the next turn . |
19 | Or the Next Directory , a fancy , hardback , charged for catalogue , owned by Next and aimed at young professional women . |
20 | Unanimity , or the next best thing , a decision which no one actually opposes , is not unknown , especially in relatively small groups or communities . |
21 | Came a day when your mother walked along the strand at Starr Hills and knew that tomorrow , or the next day , or the day after that , the stupid peasants would come and take away your grannie to the witch-finder , prick her for witch-marks , watch her till she maddened from sleeplessness , then swim her in the river . |
22 | My grandfather saying that everything was going downhill , my grandmother talking of progress , but neither expecting it for that year or the next , they did n't dream of real change , not in their lifetime nor their children 's . |
23 | The inner-city indicators were based largely on territorial assumptions , for example that people might have close relatives living in the same street or the next street , and that people would work in the same places as some of their close neighbours ( L. Milroy 1987 : 141–2 ) . |
24 | In the course of the evening or the next few days you may come across some new information or viewpoint relating to the lecture that you attended . |
25 | Or the next committee meeting . |
26 | He did not listen that day , or the next day , or any day . |
27 | So the next message that I was going to or the next thing I was concerned about really , was on page |
28 | Please would she meet him for a long dinner on Friday — he would expect to hear from her tomorrow or the next day . |
29 | She thought she would take the statement tomorrow or the next day , when he was out of hospital . |
30 | It means , do n't keep wishing for the next day , or the next week , or month , or year , or your life goes too fast . |