Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | I shall just have to wait for the next Guinness Book of Records for the answer . |
| 3 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 4 | I watched the doors close and then ran upstairs to the empty ticket hall to wait for the next train . |
| 5 | Furious , she sat down to wait for the next vehicle . |
| 6 | But when the money runs out and they ca n't afford to pay for any more care patients have to wait for the next financial year . |
| 7 | However , the jokes are a bit stale for real belly laughs , so if you 've seen him before it 's probably better to wait for the next batch . |
| 8 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 9 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 10 | We 'd have to wait for the next one then . |
| 11 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 12 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 13 | Such was my father 's introduction to Abyssinia where , except for three periods of leave , he was to remain for the next ten years . |
| 14 | Well , he 'll have to see about the next time Kyle cos he was |
| 15 | I could see his jeans , shirts , jerseys , everything he needed to wear for the next two days , neatly folded in a drawer in Edinburgh . |
| 16 | It could also pay to go for the next larger filter if your pond is alternatively stocked . |
| 17 | As far as I can see , there is not likely to be anywhere for it to go for the next five or 10 years , except east on the A47 or south on the A6 . |
| 18 | And after Haley came Presley , Little Richard , and Fats Domino , laying a freeway through popular culture that outraged left and right alike , and down which successive generations of youth were to drive for the next three decades . |
| 19 | Individual farmers had come across difficult times and they needed to borrow to finance seed to plant for the next year 's crop . |
| 20 | After that come more advanced techniques which students need to perform for the next grading . |
| 21 | It is very important that as you come to the end of one bottle you contact your Homœopath to arrange for the next one to be made up . |
| 22 | If I could just add my thanks to the officers substantial piece of work , which is , I hope going to be used by many members to come for the next year . |
| 23 | The Livingstones and Crichtons did this in 1439 , when they seized James II and then settled down to squabble for the next decade ; the Boyds did the same thing with James III ; and Angus found time , despite his matrimonial problems with Margaret Tudor , to get possession of James V in 1526 and dominate politics for the last two years of the minority . |
| 24 | In the upheaval that was to come during the next 12 months , only the ECSC seemed to have avoided the scrapheap . |
| 25 | Elena has now returned for more plastic surgery and although her family does not have to pay for the treatment , there will be hefty travelling expenses to meet during the next few years . |
| 26 | Philip of France had sent a force of Brabançons to help his brother-in-law , the opening shot in a campaign which he was to wage for the next thirty years . |
| 27 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 28 | He needs to leap into the next league . |
| 29 | In the long term , Britain has to come into the next century with a partnership in Europe . |
| 30 | First , as economies grow , rising productivity levels made possible by technological advances allow workers to pass into the next sector . |