Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] for the next [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
2 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
3 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
4 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
5 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
6 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
7 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
8 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
9 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
10 | She had been so thrilled too at the discovery that her home for the next six months was to be such an unconventional one . |
11 | She turned the corner and glanced up at the hoarding above the cinema 's portico , to see what was to be her fate for the next three hours . |
12 | After the break-up with Hugh she had resolved to concentrate on her career for the next few years . |
13 | Until recently , their quest for the next best seller drug relied wholly on laborious physical trial and error . |
14 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
15 | All because of one silly accident , which had n't even been her fault , her life for the next long miserable eighteen months was to be ruled by a man whom she detested with all her heart . |
16 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
17 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |
18 | The child is receiving his direct physical care from a carefully selected woman who will be his nurse-cum-mother for the next few years . |
19 | At Sussex University , he met Gail Rebuck , who would figure largely in his life for the next twenty years . |
20 | Can you imitate an academic ? — like not washing or changing your shirt for the next few days … ? ’ |
21 | Should not we include such a policy in our manifesto for the next general election ? |
22 | Now make the changes to your success image and to your plan for the next five years . |
23 | They really run this hospital , and they 'll be running your life for the next few years . ’ |
24 | My name is Howard DeVore and I 'm to be your host for the next eight hours . ’ |