Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll be keeping this for the next few days with me looking after it . |
| 2 | What with all the forms to fill out and papers to file , it looks like the Novell Inc/Unix System Labs acquisition wo n't be formally closed until June , two or three months later than they originally figured : they should have the required stockholders meeting scheduled in the next 30 days . |
| 3 | They chatted for a while longer , then Mrs Lennox and Susan set about packing , getting ready for the next day 's evacuation . |
| 4 | Siemens also says it expects losses at the semiconductor division to go on , saying that the prospects of it breaking even over the next few years as a result of cost-cutting had been dampened by weak demand . |
| 5 | on the tape okay , so if you 're still doing that in the next forty five minutes it will be just as above or whatever |
| 6 | Eight ends later , the 26-year-old Edinburgh postman had clinched victory by taking each of the next two sets on a 7-2 scoreline . |
| 7 | Your next step is to become familiar with all the foods in the second column , Suspect foods , and to make a plan to avoid consuming these for the next few months . |
| 8 | With big increases in the numbers of bonds falling due over the next three years , defaults seem sure to rise further . |
| 9 | Crucially though — in the title year we then hit very good form , winning 7 of the next 8 matches . |
| 10 | I opened the can and poured the Coke , and Mrs Young , who happened to be sitting alone at the next table , turned round and said to Xanthe sweetly that she , Mrs Young , would pay for the Coke , and would n't Xanthe come and join her ? |
| 11 | Hendry rallied after the break , winning four of the next five frames to trail 7-6 , but his countryman steadied to take the next two frames and seal victory . |
| 12 | If we accept Massey 's ( 1984a ) argument regarding ‘ layers of investment ’ as the mechanism through which places are constantly being remade , then we are similarly accepting the longer-lived view of the landscape as a palimpsest , a parchment on which several ( perhaps many ) layers of human occupance have been laid , with the nature of each layer influencing that of the next . |