Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] [art] next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 's warning to send the next late-comer straight to Matron . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll call back at noon , ’ he said to the buttons on her breast pockets , and she led me to a changing room full of paper nighties before turning to greet the next chicken on the conveyor belt and rewinding the tape to : ‘ Hi there , welcome to Surgicentre . |
| 4 | ( I saw a party of friends — all knowing that their host and hostess must either clear up before retiring , or rise early before going to work the next day — whisking round to help before they left . |
| 5 | For example , " What do you think about Mr Gorbachev ? " or " Who do you think is going to win the next election ? " |
| 6 | Within the next few weeks , Sparc International Inc is going to release the next iteration of its interface definition for the Sparc RISC architecture . |
| 7 | We are beginning to plan the next stage of development with a target of 6500 campus-based students by the year 2000 . |
| 8 | And as I moved my foot about , like this , trying to find the next rung , I began to realize things were n't quite right . |
| 9 | And I was going like this doing a little dance on the ladder trying to find the next rung and the ladder was doing a little dance on the wall . |
| 10 | As well as looking messy , this means that trying to find the next step in the process is somewhat disruptive of the reading process , and hence , possibly , to retention of the information . |
| 11 | Computerworld interprets IBM 's willingness to make public its plans for OS/2 3.0 as the latest advance in the clash with Microsoft Corp : having lost out in the personal computer operating system game , where OS/2 is lagging far behind compared with MS-DOS and Windows , IBM is trying to position the next generation OS/2 competitively against Microsoft 's forthcoming NT operating system . |
| 12 | His mind was n't up to speaking one line while listening to another , and at the same time trying to remember the next move . |
| 13 | All he could feel was his body , trying to anticipate the next touch . |
| 14 | She was planning to go the next day . |