Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if I could offer you a cup of coffee in my department within the next couple of minutes ? ’ |
| 2 | Not a chance of course — I was stuck there in my seat for the next five or six hours . |
| 3 | ‘ Will you pretend to be my girlfriend for the next few months ? ’ |
| 4 | The cab driver dumped me outside my home for the next three months . |
| 5 | I registered in Room 304 which came to be my home for the next three years . |
| 6 | I was just let off for an afternoon to sit my first year Sociology exam and then I came into the hospital that was to be my home for the next three years . |
| 7 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 8 | My reference in the next ensuing paragraph to the general principles of responsibility of the principal for the acts of the agent was to set the context of the consideration that in that particular case the solicitors for the creditors were equally deceived by the dishonest conduct of the son as were his own parents . |
| 9 | Ian Jack , my guide for the next part of the trip , was waiting for me with his new vehicle . |
| 10 | I regard that day as determining the direction of my life for the next two years at least . |
| 11 | I would therefore be grateful if you could publish my address in the next issue of CONTACT . |
| 12 | ‘ Meaning that I 'll need all my strength in the next few days . |
| 13 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 14 | I realize that I need to work my way through the next passages with care and delicacy . |
| 15 | I 've barely had time to wipe the blood off my axe after my last battle and it 's already time to hack my way through the next trail ! |
| 16 | She told me it added up to thousands and I had to pay her back by giving her my salary for the next ten years . |
| 17 | And she weighed Zuleika 's words , and the shadow-voices , against her own uncertain judgement , and put her boot-toe on the next step up . |
| 18 | Her identity is widely known in the village , but her wishes are respected and her name will not be revealed here She is the last of a long line of illustrious cheesemakers and her regular clients can only hope that she will pass on her expertise to the next generation . |
| 19 | Their progress over the next two weeks will solve the Guineas mystery , but that is of little concern to connections of Dr Devious , who heads now for the Kentucky Derby ( for which he is 10–1 from 12–1 ) in Louisville on May 2 and returns to Epsom for the Ever Ready Derby in June . |
| 20 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 21 | Mid-year , they present the strategic thinking for the next edition of their rolling five-year plan , and in November they present the five-year plan itself and their budget for the next year . |
| 22 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 23 | They are bearing the one-eyed god from some unseen station of its progress to the next . |
| 24 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 25 | We consider first the extent of accumulation for bequests and then its division among the next generations ( these decisions may of course be interdependent ) . |
| 26 | Defence is now allowed to carry forward a percentage of its vote into the next financial year . |
| 27 | She heaved her bulk up the next flight , her face reddening and her breath coming in short , painful puffs . |
| 28 | Aunt Louise was seeking in her mind for the next verse , but it had gone . |
| 29 | She knew it with the first note she sang , she knew it as she walked jerkily across the stage in a parody of her usual smooth-flowing stride , she knew it as she was forced to search her mind for the next line of a song she knew by heart . |
| 30 | The detailed discussion of the review procedure at this meeting and the lengthy minutes devoted to it are in marked contrast to the brevity of its mention in the next meeting , under ‘ matters arising ’ . |