Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the last two stitches on the right , place the end stitch on to the next needle to keep the 1 × 1 rib pattern . |
| 2 | ‘ He said it had hardly ever been used intentionally to murder people in Europe , though it 's being used all the time out East for helping relatives on to the next world . |
| 3 | By the time he got to the ice-cream he was too weary to eat , so he downed the bourbon — which instantly took its toll — and retired to bed , leaving the television on in the next room , its sound turned down to a soporific burble . |
| 4 | Maslow argued that as one need is met then the individual moves on to the next need . |
| 5 | If we translate the colloquial meaning of ‘ nice guy ’ into its Darwinian equivalent , a nice guy is an individual that assists other members of its species , at its own expense , to pass their genes on to the next generation . |
| 6 | The generations of this century will , in their turn , hand on to the next generation the archaic unconscious problems , unless the guilt becomes too strong , the rebellion so great , the need to kill and be killed so overwhelming that we hand on nothing at all . |
| 7 | These details then lead the research worker on to the next step , which is that of drawing the threads together . |