Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
2 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
3 | Wo would you like to try it for the next year , or few meetings ? |
4 | Within the next , er month or so a national consultation is being held within the URC to consider the advice of producing a programme of training for eldership which will be used throughout the call of the church and if there are any suggestions or any proposal that anyone would like to make I shall be very glad to receive them within the next month . |
5 | What Boy had to do now was not walk down those streets , but stand still and choose amongst their inhabitants , choose the right one to follow , the right one to lead him in the next stage of his journey or wandering through the city . |
6 | Two men climb the rock to check that all has been eaten and to clean it for the next burial . |
7 | I 'll be looking at your statement later and I 'll probably want to see you in the next day or so . ’ |
8 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
9 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
10 | WITH a single goal to score to put them into the next round of the European Cup , only Scots south of the border doubted Leeds United 's ability to conclude the issue in their favour . |
11 | He used to shut you in the next room and give you a pile of books and you 'd have to take notes from about seven or eight different books . |
12 | Sometimes there might be the temptation to leave it until the next day if the weather is bad or your car will not start . |
13 | One of the great regrets , I am sure , of all hon. Members is that because the hon. Gentleman has chosen to leave us at the next election he will never have the opportunity to be a junior Minister . |
14 | Said she 's guaranteed to phone me before the next council meeting , so that we know what we 're doing , so I 'll keep at her . |
15 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
16 | And it was seldom his tunes failed to draw the odd penny from a shopkeeper 's pocket or , indeed , a bottle from the publican to sustain him to the next village . |
17 | In 1697 the presbytery being informed by the minister and ruling elder of Kilvarow that Janet NcKalman in Brockachach , Angus Brown in Scarabus , John McVurich in Achtawilling and Milcolm McIllvoil in Grundart doe use charms and divination The Presbytery appoint Allan McDugald their officer to summond them to the next dyet of the Presbytery at Kilchoman . |
18 | In 1697 the presbytery being informed by the minister and ruling elder of Kilvarow that Janet NcKalman in Brockachach , Angus Brown in Scarabus , John McVurich in Achtawilling and Milcolm McIllvoil in Grundart doe use charms and divination The Presbytery appoint Allan McDugald their officer to summond them to the next dyet of the Presbytery at Kilchoman . |
19 | I would , therefore , like to invite you to the next meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council . |
20 | She appeared to have sufficient buoyancy forward to lift her over the next wave instead of burying the foredeck , something which normally prefaces a broach . |
21 | So before we separated he gave me a working title for a song , and told me he wanted me to finish it by the next time he saw me . |
22 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
23 | Is Olsen then going to drop him from the next side if he s not playing in Leeds first team ? |
24 | So even if the associate has , has er , obtained the cheque but has n't managed to get it in the next day , and he dies in an accident . |
25 | Sun/Star readers were more likely than others to have no preference at all in 1986 ( despite voting in 1987 ) , and at the same time , those Sun/Star readers who did have a preference in 1986 were more likely than others to change it during the next year ( Table 8.16 ) . |
26 | Stoke boss Lou Macari was more subdued as he admitted : ‘ It needed a little spark of magic up front to get us into the next round , but we did n't have that spark tonight . ’ |
27 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
28 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
29 | I was just building up my first business then , and a thing like that is a bit like riding a roller-coaster — you need all the speed you can collect on the downhill runs to take you over the next hump . |
30 | In the closing days of that year she could only hope and pray that whoever was responsible for Liza 's unnatural behaviour would have helped to improve it by the next time she saw her . |