Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] next " in BNC.

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1 She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says .
2 The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night .
3 That impatient man did not have so long to wait as he had feared , for the very next evening a young townsman arrived at Hoddom from Annan , ten miles distant , with the news that Edward Balliol had indeed returned to his army .
4 Why is it then , that this happens during the very next week to me , an experienced knitter ?
5 One fantasy was proving especially obdurate : as he entered his office , the telephone on his desk would actually be bouncing on its console — Hugh Sixsmith , from The Little Magazine , his voice urgent but grave , with the news that he was going to rush Alistair 's screenplay into the very next issue .
6 There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame .
7 For in the very next verse ( V.26 ) Paul says , ‘ In your anger do not sin .
8 Aye , thought Lexandro , they 're sitting in the very next room .
9 But in the very next poem he says that he did it for a change of diet , a bout of ‘ physic ’ as it were , needed after over-indulgence : ‘ being full of your ne'er cloying sweetness , /To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding ’ ( 118 ) .
10 And he was walking on his hands in the very next room this very minute .
11 In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something .
12 Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years .
13 Look , in the very next lines Gray says :
14 And we were , how we were gon na combat it , and in the very next room were or rather holding a conference on how to do us in .
15 Now the others she 's referring to there must be God , but she can not immediately go on and so bluntly say , in the very next line anyway , you know , it was only the serpent who showed it to me , God is going to be envious of me .
16 If a loop in the cable is overlooked , it becomes a small kink and it will fail on the very next launch .
17 Beginning on the very next day , orders were sent to the sheriffs of Shropshire , Rutland , Nottingham , Leicester , Hampshire , Berkshire , Oxford , Huntingdon , Surrey and Warwick .
18 On the very next day she would get her grandfather out of Dudley House .
19 They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day .
20 Charlie Wilson was to the fore again on the very next mission , another long haul to Sorau on April 11 .
21 The mother , notwithstanding what she had previously said about not taking the child out of the jurisdiction without an order of the court , nevertheless left Ontario for England on the very next day , 3 July 1991 .
22 So this was done , and on the very next day fine grapes were found hanging on the youngest brother 's vine .
23 ‘ The immediate effects of the theft were considerably lessened both by the death of Laura Stratton and on the very next day by the murder of Dr Kemp , the man to whom the Tongue was due to be handed over that day at an official little ceremony at the Ashmolean .
24 And then , on the very next day , Kemp is murdered .
25 I remembered them again when Tony Jacklin did the same thing at the very next Open — — and , amazingly , at the 17th again .
26 It was at the very next stage was n't it that you had this switch from a boundary which we could accept to one which we profoundly could not accept ?
27 At the very next place . ’
28 Around the very next corner may lie the chance to recover , perhaps to retaliate .
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