Example sentences of "[v-ing] for the next [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTTISH teenagers are not amoral hedonists living for the next ecstasy tab . |
| 2 | You are not training for the next Olympics , just getting a little fitter and making your heart work more efficiently and become stronger . |
| 3 | I 'm living alone now and looking for the next relationship , which I hope will be the last one . |
| 4 | In the '60s Scottish football was awash with stories of ‘ scouts ’ — the often unpaid enthusiasts who scoured the pitches of school-boy Scotland looking for the next generation of international talent . |
| 5 | ‘ Chapman was essentially a designer , an artist , who was always looking for the next design , something different , ’ says Mr Nearn . |
| 6 | The ability to lock the rope quickly is also very useful when searching for the next stance , or else in performing diagonal manoeuvres . |
| 7 | Yet I keep changing , keep searching for the next challenge . |
| 8 | He intends to concentrate on writing for the next year , with a summer break to make an irreverent beginner 's Guide to Opera , co-written with his colleague Paul Whitehouse . |
| 9 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |
| 10 | By fixing your rate , you know exactly what you will be paying for the next months . |
| 11 | ‘ There is nothing worse than players hanging around waiting for the next instruction . |
| 12 | She stirred the saucepan , waiting for the next assault , which did not come . |
| 13 | Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it . |
| 14 | It lay there on the dry cracked mud below the high water mark , waiting for the next tide to wet its bottom . |
| 15 | It is now under lock and key near her husband 's tomb , waiting for the next opening of the royal vault for her last repose . ’ |
| 16 | There they all are : working out the profit on their duty-free ; having more drinks at the bar than they want ; playing the fruit machines ; aimlessly circling the deck ; making up their minds how honest to be at customs ; waiting for the next order from the ship 's crew as if the crossing of the Red Sea depended on it . |
| 17 | Nobody sits at home waiting for the next assignment . |
| 18 | Her mother described her as a dog waiting for the next command , and all she wanted to do was hold out her arms and say ‘ Come here ’ , but she was completely powerless to do anything at all . |
| 19 | Mildred took her suitcase from the back of the broomstick which was hovering politely , waiting for the next command . |
| 20 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 21 | Er and they 've now got it stashed away in in Australia waiting for the next exhibition . |
| 22 | Around each station were hundreds of cars , waiting for the next delivery , prepared to stay all night and very often did . |
| 23 | Er no sir , I 'm waiting for the next item . |
| 24 | We sat in silence for a while , waiting for the next pain . |
| 25 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 26 | She stood on the stairs by the open window , waiting for the next stroke of the bell , waiting in fact for this sign of Ernest 's madness . |
| 27 | But it should do more these days about practical matters — like the tax system and keeping yourself together while you 're out of work and waiting for the next job , for that is fifty percent of what you 'll be doing . |
| 28 | Noah 's faith was persistent ; through the taunts of unbelievers as he worked ; through the rainstorm ; through the tragedy of knowing that men and women were dying in the flood ; through the long days and nights waiting for the next stage , as the waters went down . |
| 29 | It means , do n't keep wishing for the next day , or the next week , or month , or year , or your life goes too fast . |
| 30 | In fact this is a year when we 're spending for the next adoptions . |