Example sentences of "[noun sg] next [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd be nervous living next to a bear |
| 2 | Make a small hole through the ceiling next to a joist with a bradawl , leaving it in place while you go downstairs and transfer the position ( and width ) of the joist on to the ceiling downstairs with pencil marks . |
| 3 | A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee . |
| 4 | There was a pair of dark maroon button boots in the window next to a lace fan and a parasol . |
| 5 | HOPES that a plan to build a jail next to a Merseyside hospital could be scrapped because of government spending cuts , have been dashed . |
| 6 | In a narrow street called Frezzeria is a trattoria next to a sign with a kitten painted on it . |
| 7 | They paused to stare at a cistern hanging on the wall next to a wash basin , the rest of the house having disappeared . |
| 8 | If you sit on a chair next to a mirror , without the cosmetic benefits of tights of course , you will see the skin texture clearly . |
| 9 | They stand in a cluster next to a stream around an open space , for which the term ‘ village green ’ would be too grand . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the influential head priest of the Jama Masjid in New Delhi , Imam Abdullah Bukhari , yesterday charged Mr Gandhi with being in league with Hindu militants who laid the foundation stone of a temple next to a mosque in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday . |
| 11 | In one corner next to a store house was a rusting metal cage which housed a pet crow with broken wings and tatty feathers . |
| 12 | Poor boy , he had found nothing better than a dirty corner next to a lavatory ! |
| 13 | A man was on his knee next to a woman , and for one wild insane moment Maggie thought he was proposing . |
| 14 | Advertisements showed a cow 's udder next to a bottle of the prepared milk , and claimed the Department of Health had recommended the product as better than cow 's milk for babies older than six months . |
| 15 | ‘ One of the things is , it is very difficult for a hospital next to a school , ’ said head of middle school Peter Dawson . |
| 16 | Christ writhed on a knobbly wooden crucifix next to a photograph of the Pope . |
| 17 | The two girls collected their little felt bags and scurried away as Charlie sat himself down on a stool next to a box of plums . |
| 18 | It usually runs the length of a wall between side walls , but can sometimes be from a side wall to an end panel next to a door . |
| 19 | Her battered body was abandoned on scrub land next to a city car park . |
| 20 | The Bible has long been recognized as a composite work spanning many centuries , not some kind of monolithic whole , and whilst opinions differ widely as to the precise dating ( and methods of dating ) of its constituent parts , it remains the case that a book , or indeed a chapter , may lie in the received text next to a verse or chapter some several centuries removed in compositional/redactional terms from its neighbour . |
| 21 | He spent five years in a prison camp next to a camp where Ukrainian women were held , and he and one of the captives , Maria , fell in love over the barbed wire . |
| 22 | A toy next to a ScumStopper Magnum , but it could do the job . |
| 23 | The 1954 Hague Cultural Property Convention extends protection to movable or immovable property of cultural value , and obliges the parties to avoid actions ( such as placing a military base next to a cathedral ) which are likely to expose cultural property to damage in the event of armed conflict . |
| 24 | The ley starts from a wayside cross next to a crossroads , goes through Saintbury Church , noted for its pagan survivals , through a Bronze Age round barrow , a Neolithic long barrow sited in the middle of an Iron Age fort , through a Saxon pagan cemetery , and an eighteenth-century beacon tower , ending at an ancient farmstead , Seven Wells — which was the subject of a fictional book on witchcraft by Hugh Ross Williamson entitled The Silver Bowl . |
| 25 | I think we should have a 2nd referee next to a monitor in the stand . |
| 26 | He told the court : ‘ She was chained to a table next to a fan heater to help dry her coat after grooming . |
| 27 | The fire started in a workshop next to a garage in Gloucester Road , in Cheltenham . |
| 28 | I remember some other kids , a girls ' dorm , green-painted walls with a red border half-way up , a stiff roller-towel next to a wash-hand-basin , the scent of carbolic soap , hugs from a kind , laughing lady with large arms and the comforting smell of B.O. , and a small , quiet , wiry man who always seemed to be sweeping and winking . |