Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'll be contacting them in the next fortnight er if and to make be able to pass on my card , I 'll leave you two cards so that they , they know to expect a phone call from myself . |
| 2 | Starving her until the next evening , he coaxed her with pony nuts into a stall which Raimundo used for branding and saddling bigger horses , which was so narrow she could n't turn round . |
| 3 | I shall quite enjoy taming you over the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 4 | That covers you for us paying you in the next week . |
| 5 | In the early stages it was finding them a deal , or moving them to the next level up . ’ |
| 6 | He would happily have stood there kissing her till the next morning . |
| 7 | But of course she could n't ; she had to sit there and be polite , supporting him as the next chairman , knowing that was exactly what he was , knowing no one could handle the job better , and knowing too that he was one day going to get around to handling her … superbly . |
| 8 | Lift the stencil carefully , and rinse and dry it before moving it to the next position . |
| 9 | Timeless words of great writers are learned by rote , the individual becoming the book and , in turn , teaching it to the next generation . |
| 10 | Two occupiers later the turbine is still doing its job and , I 'm sure , with proper maintenance it will continue doing it for the next century . |
| 11 | And another quaver , those two will be tied the join taking them onto the next group of three and so on . |
| 12 | making them for the next morning . |
| 13 | For anyone that has not seen this effect , the lace carriage is set to ‘ F ’ and instead of taking one stitch off and transferring it to the next needle , the carriage ‘ hops ’ the stitch across from the one it is on and hooks it on to the next one . |