Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the next [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This food was also an invaluable help to passage migrants such as the finches and buntings , helping them put on a few extra grammes of fat to carry them through the next leg of their long journey to winter quarters . |
| 2 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 3 | making them for the next morning . |
| 4 | Once Crispin arrived , I would want to be out and about with him , so I worked till lunch-time , and was rewarded by reaching the half-way mark , and with a new idea to carry me through the next section of the story . |
| 5 | But what I 'd like you to do is to go with me during the next couple of hours , have an open mind and erm if I say something which is in an in any way provocative , question me if you want to , cos that 's what we 're here for , to communicate . |
| 6 | ‘ Tell me about the next morning . ’ |
| 7 | Er I 'll just talk erm just talk briefly about emergency access money , cos this wi this covers one point I in the next session . |
| 8 | As far as the ‘ artisan'-producer is concerned , Carole King 's picture of institutionalized song-writing in New York in the early 1960s — ‘ squeezed into our respective cubby-holes … you 'd sit there and write and you could hear someone in the next cubby-hole composing a song exactly like yours ’ ( Frith 1983a : 13–12 ) — fits into exactly the same frame of reference as Abner Silver and Robert Bruce 's classic 1939 text , How to Write and Sell a Hit Song , which describes the ‘ standard ’ forms and techniques , and from which Adorno quotes with withering relish ( 1941 : 17–18 ) . |
| 9 | There was always someone in the next field to say ‘ Hello ’ to , and the school , which had two teachers , usually had more than thirty children in attendance . |
| 10 | We shall have to ask ourselves in the next lecture to what extent they succeeded with so little Latin at their disposal . |
| 11 | If you saw someone you knew and you shouted out to them , you were in dead trouble , even if you shouted hello , or if you asked someone at the next table for a cigarette . |
| 12 | Someone at the next table echoed that in a foreign accent and Ruth turned to smile at him and raise her glass in a mutual toast . |
| 13 | Now er reminded me of the next thing really I ought to have got on to . |
| 14 | In 1965 and 1967 Medau was included in the Leeds Festival of Movement and Dance , and 1967 also saw the first Easter Course in Leeds , which for the next decade established the pattern of alternate years in the South and Leeds . |
| 15 | 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race . |
| 16 | Mahoney sucked in a deep breath , preparing himself for the next round of questions . |
| 17 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 18 | Ergotimos and Kleitias seem to be the inventors of a more elegant type , the ‘ Little Master ’ , which in the next generation settled into two forms , ‘ Lip-cup ’ ( fig. 50 ) and ‘ Band-cup ’ ( fig. 51 ) . |
| 19 | Or somebody in the next place or the next place , we reckon we know where it is |
| 20 | The other 152 expect theirs within the next fortnight . |
| 21 | And yet in one way the later poet contradicts himself in the next stanza by following the traditional pastoral view that there is plentiful and ‘ luscious ’ fruit , ready to be picked and savoured . |
| 22 | Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance . |
| 23 | 750,000 copies of this booklet have been produced and we will try to get copies for you for the next Q.T. Day . |
| 24 | You trainer is a nicer guy who can advise you about the next fight . |
| 25 | Readying itself for the next release of Solaris this week , SunPro , a division of Sun Microsystems Inc based in Mountain View , California , will ship its C Transition Pack on July 1 . |
| 26 | She stopped for a moment , and gazed at it with pleasure , and saw how huge it was , surging against the rocks with far more power and energy than it had in the shelter of the estuary , flinging plumes of spray about in a reckless manner and dragging back to gather itself for the next rush forward . |
| 27 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
| 28 | I am also enclosing a note about the British National Corpus , and shall get the discussed poster to you before the next ESBW event . |
| 29 | Contact you within the next fortnight something |
| 30 | I have placed a request with our technical colleagues for a tape according to your specifications , and expect to be able to send this out to you within the next week or so . |