Example sentences of "[noun sg] next [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A body wrapped in an Army blanket was being placed on one of the stretchers and a Commando with a bad face wound was being helped into the seat next to the driver . |
| 2 | She 'll do a good two hundred miles an hour , and though she 's got dual control you can take out the second seat next to the pilot 's to make room for a stretcher . ’ |
| 3 | Turning to a school photograph next to the oak coffin , he added : ‘ We look into his eyes on that wonderful photograph but his eyes are still . |
| 4 | The captain assembled with his fellows in the Dominican monastery next to the Palace , watching bright-eyed as the notables arrived for the procession that would march eastwards from the Porta Santo Domenico to the Cathedral of Santa Sofia . |
| 5 | He ended up in the village of Hampole near Doncaster , where he became the spiritual director of the local anchoress Margaret Kirkby , who lived a solitary life in a cell next to the Church , and the nuns of the enclosed Cistercian convent . |
| 6 | The commission , in its first rule , hoped that authors would mention the official name in parenthesis next to the name chosen by them . |
| 7 | Bal Kundra , who runs the cafe next to the funeral parlour , said he saw Murrell at his sister 's home four months ago . |
| 8 | Oh , no , I was n't down by the river , I was over on the side next to the road . |
| 9 | Campbell , Kinnabus , that the Tennants of the Parish will at their own Expence Fence the side next to the sea and see that the other three sides are enclosed by contract within twelve months . |
| 10 | For what it 's worth , I was a schoolboy visiting the [ Russian ] cruiser that afternoon after school , and was on the main deck looking over the side next to the quay , when I saw a diver ( with full deep-diving headgear ) being pulled beneath the surface by two frogmen . |
| 11 | The driver was oiling an axle box when he turned round to see the trim figure of a young lady with a small boy near the first compartment of the carriage next to the tender . |
| 12 | When his train stopped with only one carriage next to the platform , a voice lamented : ‘ British Rail regrets we are a total failure . ’ |
| 13 | The Silver and Knitmaster SRP60 ribber has an auto-set lever at the base of the carriage next to the pick knob . |
| 14 | The Rothorn Hut , built in 1949 , lies below a rocky outcrop next to the glacier , with a great panorama of the Ober Gabelhorn and other Zermatt peaks , especially the Monte Rosa . |
| 15 | In a clockwise direction from the top left of the picture , the card next to the clock was decorated with some bramble leaves , grass and wild roses . |
| 16 | Polartek , lightweight next to the skin layer becomes Polartek 100 ; Polarite medium weight becomes Polartek 20 and Polarplus heavy weight becomes Polartek 300 . |
| 17 | All the adopter 's names are listed on a ‘ thank-you ’ plaque next to the animal 's enclosure . |
| 18 | Still , critics wonder how an institution next to the Museum of Natural History and a block away from New York 's Columbus Avenue could attract less than a third of the number of visitors who go every year to Norman Rockwell 's home in Stockbridge , Massachusetts . |
| 19 | Father was conducting " knee drill " , the early morning prayer meeting , in the hall next to the house . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , the harm is done , ’ she said , and placed the letter at her bedside-table next to the sal volatile . |
| 21 | He 'd done no more than accidentally bump against some sailors aimlessly wandering from the passage next to the warehouse . |
| 22 | It 's chains and bolts on the door , the telephone next to the bed , all the lights left on … ’ |
| 23 | At least once a gossip columnist had run a story about ‘ the lonely and about to be divorced MP for Roundhead East ’ in a column next to the story about Irene Pitt and her husband . |
| 24 | The beam disappeared , but a patch of the ceiling next to the hole continued to glow . |
| 25 | The Rovers return , it might justifiably be said for 28-year-old Mimms has just bought the pub next to the house where he was born . |
| 26 | When I awoke , it was to find a neat pile of signed bar bills on a desk next to the window , amid a rather satisfying scene of destruction . |
| 27 | The school should be ‘ the prettiest building in the village next to the church ’ . |
| 28 | Obvious examples are at Avebury in Wiltshire and Knowlton in Dorset , but Maxey church in Northamptonshire may be built on a barrow , at Berwick in Sussex there is a large mound , probably a barrow , in the churchyard , and at Rudston in Yorkshire there is a large prehistoric monolith next to the chancel of the church . |
| 29 | This hotel , tucked away in a quiet alleyway next to the clock tower in Acquaviva , is actually a small 14th century palace . |
| 30 | Wash daily , apply a non-greasy body lotion to dry patches only , and wear loose cotton next to the skin when you can . |