Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the following [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 2 | They told me to stay there until they came and got me the following day — which I did n't . |
| 3 | We also decided that Mike would have to take every third day off to recover , while Christophe continued to follow the chimps , so that he and Mike would know where to find them the following day . |
| 4 | And he either phoned me the following morning or if it was n't the following morning it was the one after that . |
| 5 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 6 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 7 | look at this , please could you send me the following disc the Amiga five hundred , number , any num he writes number every time , one , two , three , four , five |
| 8 | Over a glass of wine Ladislav told me the following story : ‘ There was a Bohemian landowner called Prince Paar . |
| 9 | Stephen , a boy of about sixteen in a school not far from Susan 's , told me the following story : Extract 2 : Sounds are for big people Me was trodding down de road and me come across me bredder " e — me ask " im for some money an " e say " e na got . |
| 10 | It was such an important discovery that the Mayor and Corporation were persuaded to inspect it the following afternoon and the whole village turned out to wait for them . |
| 11 | We shall treat them as a special type of word and give them the following rule : when a pair of prefix-plus-stem words exists , both members of which are spelt identically , one of which is a verb and the other is either a noun or an adjective , the stress will be placed on the second syllable of the verb but on the first syllable of the noun or adjective . |
| 12 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 13 | One evening he said he 'd like me to fetch him the following morning , as he wanted to make some bread . |
| 14 | Eliot told me that if he misses his tea he is no good for anything until he has had it the following day . ’ |
| 15 | Showed it the following week . |
| 16 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Staff contacted him the following day and told him Mrs Bennett had arrived at 2.30am and was unconscious . |
| 18 | Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier . |
| 19 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 20 | It will be made out to us and we pay you the following week . |
| 21 | I have been asked to send you the following extract from the Minutes of the Computing Sub-Group meeting held 24 March 1993 . |
| 22 | All the same it was hard to restrain her pleasure when he called her the following evening . |
| 23 | She had to smile when the busy reality met her the following day . |
| 24 | That night Anthony 's wife sent me the following balm from Chequers : |
| 25 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 26 | Some of the finest of these were on the walls of Puang Sangalla 's house , where Ranteallo took us the following morning to meet his dead father , and barely alive eighty-seven-year-old mother . |
| 27 | We contacted Dr. Ford , who sent us the following reply : |
| 28 | To ring her the following morning seemed , therefore , not just a good , but even a right idea . |
| 29 | So having got that figure er fixed in my mind that 's what we 'd like to go for but erm and we pay thirty percent commission on all advertising sales , whatever you do however many you sell , you will get thirty percent commission and you will get it the following week , providing you do one or two things for us . |
| 30 | Substituting the functional form ( 5 ) into the functional form ( 4 ) gives us the following relationship : unc ( 6 ) |