Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Suddenly I hear a noise on the other side of the brick wall which separates the garden of the next house from ours . |
| 2 | BBC BASIC does this for you automatically and provides a pointer PTR# ( a pseudo-variable ) which holds the position of the NEXT character ( byte ) to be written/read . |
| 3 | If , however , the Commons passes the Bill in the next session , and the Lords again fail to pass it , it can proceed to the Royal Assent , and thus become law , without the concurrence of the House of Lords . |
| 4 | As each succeeds she or he passes the cup to the next person until everyone has had their turn . |
| 5 | Ajax join English clubs in European exile , as UEFA bans the club for the next two years they qualify for Europe , as punishment for the previous week 's crowd trouble , when the Austria Vienna goalkeeper was felled by a metal spike . |
| 6 | Unless Iraq 's dictator sounds the retreat in the next few days , he will soon be unable to meet the January 15th deadline set by the United Nations for the complete removal of his army from Kuwait . |
| 7 | Delay in the completion of one work element which prevents the start of the next where the same plant and labour are used can easily be demonstrated . |
| 8 | Each output activates the clock for the next one in line . |
| 9 | The software then automatically routes the document to the next person in the process . |
| 10 | Thucydides narrates the events of the next decade not as part of the ‘ Fifty Years ’ , to which they strictly belong , but as part of the sequence of events which immediately caused the great Peloponnesian War . |
| 11 | This key moves the cursor to the next character position within a field ( if there is one ) . |
| 12 | Right Arrow moves the cursor to the next character position within a field ( if there is one ) . |
| 13 | This week 's riot by 150 schoolgirls at Wimbledon station will almost certainly prove to be the crucial event of the election period , and the one which sets the tone for the next decade or so . |
| 14 | Each stage of development effectively sets the stage for the next . |
| 15 | The last player out becomes the judge of the next throw and what she says must be accepted . |
| 16 | The chosen one then becomes the parent of the next generation , and a litter of its mutant children are displayed simultaneously on the screen . |
| 17 | The anthropologist Margaret Murray used to say that the god of one religion becomes the devil of the next , and these legends may be a way of indicating that the sites to which they were attached had been sacred in pre-Christian times . |
| 18 | This data then becomes the detail in the next level of the hierarchical structure ( see Figure 5.9 ) . |
| 19 | There is a sort of upward ratchet effect where each achievement level becomes the baseline for the next change . |
| 20 | You may feel that you have read some of these lines before ; line 760 anticipates Keats 's ‘ Ode to a Nightingale ’ : as does the sense of the next two lines . |
| 21 | IAN McCANN heralds the arrival of the next pop star called Gordon |
| 22 | This then provides the background for the next comment made in the text , about the difficulty of proof : the case just discussed is a relatively easy one , since the testator has at any rate made it clear that the coheirs are intended to benefit under his will . |