Example sentences of "[prep] the next few [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
2 | For the next few hours they went among the high street shops , first searching through the shelves of Joseph Toms , Toys and Fancy Goods , for novelties , then looking among the tiny cupboards of Charles Weaver , Apothecary , sampling the sweet-tasting , harmless powders on their fingers and mixing the brightly-coloured liquids in beakers . |
3 | For the next few days we made love with a kindliness and consideration we had never experienced before . |
4 | For the next few days she had carried the tiny dragon everywhere . |
5 | For the next few days she refused to speak to anyone , even me . |
6 | ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore . |
7 | For the next few days I was horribly inactive , gripped by a lethargy that I could not for the life of me understand . |
8 | If these operations are to be distributed evenly across our region , for the next few months we should concentrate on patients from other health districts ( assuming equal clinical priority ) . |
9 | So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down . |
10 | For the next few months I shall be writing about the various accessories that are available for Silver punchcard machines . |
11 | For the next few weeks they went out one late night after another — ‘ I do n't know how we survived , ’ says Robert . |
12 | For the next few weeks I reported my unimportant news to the office . |
13 | For the next few weeks I thought of little else , and planned to read music there . |
14 | For the next few weeks it seemed as though a genuine " United Front " would be established . |
15 | For the next few weeks she ploughed on , doing her normal writing , extolling the virtues of the firm 's products . |
16 | But it was not now so easy to get rid of Anselm : he refused either to comply with Henry 's demand or leave the country , and for the next few weeks he lived quietly on his manors . |
17 | For the next few years they stay in these fresh waters but even at this stage in their lives , their wanderings do not cease . |
18 | Noel 's colleagues all wish him well and the very best of health in his retirement , which fortunately is only partial since for the next few years he remains with us as Research Professor in German . |
19 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
20 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
21 | During the next few days we lost my pony , two of our riding mules and five more baggage mules . |
22 | During the next few days I lived in terror , doors locked , ready to fly — to leave through the front door if Aunt Louise came to the back , or out of the back door if I saw her coming down the path . |
23 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
24 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
25 | During the next few days I went about my duties with propriety and correctness . |
26 | During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur . |
27 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |
28 | That is why during the next few weeks we shall be embarked on considering the extent to which we can change it to the benefit of all . |
29 | It is difficult to know what of the next few seconds I remember , or have pieced together , or have been told by Nathan . |
30 | During the course of the next few months I uncovered a tale of wickedness and depravity hard to credit . |