Example sentences of "next to [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She was lying next to her sister under the trees , and some leaves were falling on her face .
2 Juliet put down her coffee and went to sit next to her mother on the sofa .
3 ‘ We 'll wash up , ’ said Stephen and she accepted his offer and went to sit next to her husband on the sofa .
4 Three hours later , two thousand feet above the Mediterranean , Miranda , alert and exultant , sat next to her instructor at the controls of a trainer plane , an ugly little single-engine Rallye which her instructor described as efficient and forgiving : you could do something wrong m a Rallye without getting immediately punished for it .
5 Thus Belling 's ‘ Dreiklang ’ , the first German abstract sculpture , derided by the Nazis , can be seen next to his portrait of the boxer Max Schmeling , made ten years later and included in the official ‘ Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung ’ .
6 He lay next to his daughter on the bed and put his arm round her .
7 He was wearing women 's clothes and make-up , and there was a wig next to his handbag on the passenger seat .
8 After he died of a heart attack in 1968 on the dock next to his boat at the Waikiki Yacht Club , his ashes were scattered over Kalahuewehe break .
9 Turner , Ministry 's heavily tattooed bone tech , was sitting next to me with a small sparrow 's skull placed next to his beer on the table .
10 ‘ She works in a cubbyhole next to his office in the turret .
11 The document is actually being printed at the taxpayers ' expense on the two photocopiers next to my desk in the House of Commons .
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