Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | We continued talking for well over an hour , duly keeping the next appointment waiting . |
| 2 | ‘ For two years I lived with a girl named Susan , who I wrote ‘ Medicine Bottle ’ ( 'Down Colorful Hill ’ 's harrowing stand-out ) about , ’ he says , circuitously explaining the next album . |
| 3 | I 'd come so far without looking from side to side , only seeing the next qualification up , that by the time I began to feel closed in it was too late . |
| 4 | The eye can not rest on one thing , as in traditional circus , but you are constantly seeking the next thrill . |
| 5 | Actually Elland Road belongs to Leeds City Council so hosting the next Euro Championship games will fill their coffers . |
| 6 | Shaw is already preparing the next generation of managers to handle T&L 's ever-widening geographical and product spread . |
| 7 | BY the time he had finished his latest enterprising but utterly unproductive search for phantoms Brian Smith was already planning the next . |
| 8 | The ruse , while getting the Government off the hook in the short-term , may yet backfire on ministers , and both Labour and the Tory Euro-rebels were last night separately planning the next stage of their respective campaigns . |
| 9 | Nenna believed , however , that she would have some in the spring , when three things would happen , each , like melting ice-floes , slowly moving the next one on . |
| 10 | Like Racine , he creates a terrible sense of the screw turning tighter with every scene — you end up positively dreading the next entrance because of the terrible things you know the characters are going to say . |
| 11 | Food was a joy to them , and they had no sooner finished one meal than they were enthusiastically discussing the next . |
| 12 | I 'm not even taking the next game for granted . |
| 13 | The chain can be described adequately by specifying the first rectangle and then relating the next one to it by the four statements in Table 11.1 . |
| 14 | Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated . |
| 15 | In any case , there was no escaping the next move . |
| 16 | It pattered quietly in the distance , each small wave softly succeeding the next . |
| 17 | Stephen was already mentally tackling the next task in a crowded schedule , riffling through the papers on his desk . |
| 18 | But nothing could stop her from breathlessly anticipating the next light , accidental caress . |