Example sentences of "[coord] [v-ing] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel there are a lot more important things in life than looking good , and in countries where life is harder you do n't have time to worry about such things , you 're too busy working or preparing the next meal . |
| 2 | The first members of the teams run up to the suitcases and put everything on , run round the back of the rest of the team and then take everything off and put it back in the suitcase before running back and touching the next member of the team who repeats the process . |
| 3 | I continued walking the streets for three years , sometimes making a good deal of money , sometimes none , feasting one day and starving the next . |
| 4 | But once they were indoors again they resumed exploring , found a genuine butler 's pantry with a lot of silver in it packed away in canteens and boxes and green baize , and opening the next door , came into the gun-room . |
| 5 | I assume that that is readily available to the police — it certainly should be , because sometimes they have the nasty task of tracing accident victims and informing the next of kin . |
| 6 | Fifthly , the process of reviewing progress and reestablishing the next round of tasks allows any achievement to be reinforced . |
| 7 | Actor and singer Jimmy Nail , who is producing and directing the next series of his show , is offering would-be actors just £30 to appear . |
| 8 | She had spent all afternoon trying to ask Nanny more , but Nanny had been in a funny mood , laughing one minute and crying the next , and not making any sense of anything she said . |
| 9 | So if the carriage starts pattern knitting at the point cam and after knitting the last row , calculates which stitch , of the pattern to start knitting on , if you move the point cam nearest the carriage between knitting one row and starting the next , you will find your pattern has moved sideways . |
| 10 | For three years I consoled myself with the fact that one minute he was laughing and joking the next it was over . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yer can be paddlin' one minute and swimmin' the next . ’ |
| 12 | This column argues that maximising revenue and making the next World Cup accessible to all are incompatible . |
| 13 | He begins to doubt himself , lowering his self-confidence and self-esteem and making the next approach to a girl more difficult . |
| 14 | Yes , we do get Rugby Special on a Sunday , at a time when most of the rugby fraternity are spending time recovering from the previous day 's actions , catching up with family life and preparing the next week 's work . |
| 15 | She did not share Antonia 's interest in dissecting last week 's date and plotting the next . |
| 16 | Between 1532 and 1534 , the passing of each individual piece of legislation was closely followed by the appearance of official government propaganda justifying it and anticipating the next move , a fact that suggests that a coherent policy was unfolding by this stage . |
| 17 | Children make progress at various speeds at different ages and by watching their activities and offering the next stage when they are ready for it teachers can give them the breadth of experience that will make the formal work of later years more meaningful . |