Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] and the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time moves on for all of us and the next day we were homeward bound , hoping , like Peer Gynt , to return some day . |
| 2 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 3 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 4 | It was the nearest to us and the next one was the Glen Ayloch school . |
| 5 | Philippa , 41 , said : ‘ One minute Rod was joking about it and the next he was acting strangely . ’ |
| 6 | But she turned away without looking at him and the next moment Doyle had him by the arm and was hauling him upstairs . |
| 7 | But what we 'll do is take it there early in the morning , we 'll get he back the bus back to Liverpool , we 'll go to the pier head and we 'll go on the ferry to New Brighton and there was me prattling all on at him and the next thing er , you di , we did n't know that , we thought we were on the main right of way street and your dad started to go across and I looked , your dad was driving , I was sitting beside him and coming towards us along this other road , which had the right of way but we did n't know was a little black mini , I was a ergh , ergh oh Harry , Harry ! |
| 8 | He takes one look at it and the next thing is he 's shouting . |