Example sentences of "[art] next [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Such an event might be theft , fire , illness or even death ; within the next year , the next many years or even within a lifetime . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Because what you choose to do in the next few minutes could decide whether a child will live or die . |
4 | But I hardly like to tell you about the disaster that befell Angela within the next few minutes . |
5 | This is a common reaction to the effect of the remedy and you should wait and expect to see an improvement over the next few minutes or an hour or so depending on how severe the illness is . |
6 | In the next few minutes the small parties moved in quick spurts from the deep shadow of one warehouse to the next black patch of cover . |
7 | ‘ Oh , shit , ’ I then said , because that was how I felt and because I suddenly knew that the next few minutes were going to be extraordinarily difficult . |
8 | We 'll get a call in the next few minutes . ’ |
9 | William realised he would have to handle the unloading alone if the van did not arrive in the next few minutes . |
10 | His only concern right now was to board the Berne-bound goods train within the next few minutes . |
11 | He also knew that the next few minutes could lose what chance had so miraculously delivered up to him at long last . |
12 | His life depended on the next few minutes . |
13 | The engine produces an uneven cacophony of rattles , misfires and exhaust bark which , together with the odd puff of oil smoke from the crankcase breather , do not exactly say to a pilot , ‘ You can trust me , chief ’ , nor instil any confidence in the outcome of the next few minutes . |
14 | He spent the next few minutes wondering how much more of Henri 's ungiven advice he would be following . |
15 | Over the next few minutes Wickham learned that MacQuillan had not wanted to leave Barron in control anywhere , that Maureen and Barron had been and still were jockeying for position and that Maureen had enlisted Hunter-Blair 's support . |
16 | And the passage we are to look at today made me ask several ‘ Why ? ’ questions , and in the next few minutes , I want to try and share the questions … and some answers … with you . |
17 | Huy found that , during much of what he had to listen to over the next few minutes , his only defence against the temptation to break the young man over his knee was to invoke the Horus within him . |
18 | She had to keep her wits about her in the next few minutes . |
19 | She licked her dry lips , afraid of what the next few minutes would reveal . |
20 | At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes . |
21 | At the end of January , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call will be broadcasting live from Sydney , and in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can win the chance to travel with me , all expenses paid . |
22 | Well , that by now familiar music will tell you that at the end of January , Douglas Cameron 's Breakfast Call will be broadcasting live from Sydney , and in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can join us down under , for the Dougie Down Under Competition , stay tuned for that , thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
23 | Now here 's the interesting bit , in the next few minutes , I 'll be telling you how you can win the chance to travel with me on an all expenses paid trip . |
24 | It is not always possible to answer post by return , or to return telephone calls within the next few minutes . |
25 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
26 | Shiona would never forget the next few minutes when the two of them had arrived in the big sunny sitting-room . |
27 | I would have thought it was obvious to anyone that he never thinks further than the pleasures of the next few minutes . |
28 | Leith spent the next few minutes in accepting that somehow she was going to have to pay her brother 's share of the hefty monthly repayment as well as her own for the next seven months minimum . |
29 | Leith spent the next few minutes in a panic . |
30 | They spent the next few minutes getting themselves and the canoe off the water . |