Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] the following " in BNC.
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| 1 | But enough carousing and photographing … would I mind , my Tasmanian countrymen asked , taking the World Cup back to Sydney for them the following morning ? |
| 2 | She was surprised by the extent of Sue 's gratitude , when she came looking for them the following evening . |
| 3 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 4 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 5 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 6 | Well , we just got talking and she agreed to have dinner with me the following night . |
| 7 | You should bring with you the following : |
| 8 | Brian thought Edna seemed wary when he told her that the specialist in charge of Celia wanted to have a talk with her the following weekend . |
| 9 | The Prince , who had important paperwork to attend to at Buckingham Palace , asked her to drive back with him the following day . |
| 10 | Now what happened , and it was a good procedure because what happened was that if anyone say on a Friday had found himself in a difficult situation , we would then discuss it on the Monday afternoon , er bearing in mind that he had taken it to the foreman and had got no response from the foreman , we could discuss it on a Monday afternoon , the convenor and the secretary would deal with it the following day , and in all probability , without having recourse to take it any further , reply to the man that the matter had been resolved and , and to his liking . |
| 11 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
| 12 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
| 13 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 14 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 15 | He asked permission to leave it for her the following day . |
| 16 | Very little was found of either body , but Winnie was so loved that we arranged a remembrance service for her the following Sunday . |
| 17 | ‘ Napkins , ’ laughed a young wife to me the following day . |
| 18 | We 've had that 's that 's the observation I was gon na make , that 's er just so happens that that almost the amount that 's gon na be turned round to me the following week that that |
| 19 | It is my intention then to deliver them to you the following day , Friday 5 March , probably sometime before midday . |
| 20 | He took breakfast to her the following morning . |
| 21 | Having found a food-source in the evening , they will fly straight back to it the following morning , still guiding themselves by the sun even though it is now in the east and not the west . |
| 22 | In cases where we require the client to confirm in writing certain representations made to us the following letter may be used . |
| 23 | Pawley and Syder provide a number of examples , among them the following : |
| 24 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |