Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the things that those of us who were involved in local government campaigns were trying to do was to achieve some measure of redistribution in favour of all those lesbians and gays who do not belong to the charmed circles of The Swimming Pool Library — people who have no private income ; people who depend on their jobs and would welcome job security ; people who want council tenancies free of harassment , with friends and lovers of their choice ; people who want to meet others at venues which have disabled access , which are not commercially exploitative and which are run for the benefit of the community ; people who want to display affection or consensual desire publicly without fear of violence or arrest ; people who want to bring up children without intimidation from the courts or social workers ; people who have survived the indoctrination of the education system but do not want to see the next generation of lesbians and gays subjected to the same process ; people who wanted themselves and their lifestyles to be treated with respect by the health services . |
| 2 | As I say , if you by the time you get home and then you got to exercise them erm and then you 've got to get back and feed them and then feed yourself and keep warm and think of you know , what you got to wear the next day the time 's gone ! |
| 3 | The actions taken by both leaders and followers have , at each turn of the wheel of fortune , helped to create the next round of change . |
| 4 | To get to the next section of footway the pedestrian has to risk death by collision in the road reserved for motoring , analogous to the castaway having to swim the shark-infested waters to reach the next island . |
| 5 | Now the Standing Conference of Principals , the national body which represents colleges like Chester , is to meet to discuss the next move and there are calls to ignore Mr Boswell 's rejection of their case . |
| 6 | I wondered if I was expected to buy the next round as well . |
| 7 | The Tories say Labour can not be trusted to form the next Government . |
| 8 | Saturation coverage of three-and-a-half weeks of intense campaigning may have given way to non-stop reports of a complicated new chess game — as each main party , neither with an overall majority , manoeuvres to secure the support it will need to form the next Government . |
| 9 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |
| 10 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 11 | Langbaurgh is still a key marginal and if the Tories want to form the next Government , it 's seat like these they need to win and to win well . |
| 12 | As Bernice tried to read the next line , Ell moved forward and stamped on the creature . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't wait to read the next chunk . |
| 14 | Both men promised to return the next day . |
| 15 | He said he was afraid the delay over the book had lost him the opportunity of reaching the city in time to take part in any meaningful work , and promised to join the next summer 's dig in June . ’ |
| 16 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 17 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 18 | In other cases the companies deal on the market themselves , so the transaction has to await the next stock exchange settlement day . |
| 19 | Political sources said that Mitterrand loyalists were already in touch with Gaullist Edouard Balladur , 63 , widely expected to head the next government , to discuss the handover from the present prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy . |
| 20 | Leith wondered , as she drove to work the next morning , why she had bothered getting the car out , since she was convinced that , his warning unheeded , Naylor Massingham would waste no time in getting her out of his business . |
| 21 | We prepared to leave the next day . |
| 22 | 's warning to send the next late-comer straight to Matron . ’ |
| 23 | We were sentenced to hang the next morning at the gallows of Montfaucon . |
| 24 | Prost could be said to represent the next generation of drivers and Niki the past . |
| 25 | Remember that if you return home at the end of the session with the work you planned to do uncompleted you can not expect to return the next day or the next week to find the situation exactly as you left it . |
| 26 | For example , the decline in numbers of young people could be a chance to improve educational standards , thus making Britain better prepared to enter the next century and to manage the demands of an ageing population . |
| 27 | Do you want to hear the next line ? |
| 28 | I mentioned some of the problems we were facing and David asked , ‘ Harvey , do your people actually want to win the next election ? ’ |
| 29 | Their small majority made them all the more conscious of the problems they needed to surmount to win the next election . |
| 30 | It 's a song about running away — ‘ a Jack Kerouac On The Road experience ’ — but also about how ‘ if you do n't like this town , you 're not going to like the next town either — you ca n't run away from yourself ’ . |