Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] the next [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you know you know as you 're going down the corridor before you get to the doors to go down the next set of stairs , I mean in O S D , the last one is er for the P C that does all the man er you know all the duties and things like that , and in his office there 's a great big board with all the vehicles on , and the key 's hung up at the end and who 's got 'em out , and the bottom one is that green van , because he went up and picked 'em up , when I was there . |
| 2 | ‘ There have been a number of occasions in the past when stories have appeared in the press saying what the figures are going to be in one or two days ’ time … but when someone quotes exactly the figure which is going to come out the next day it is hard to believe they just made an inspired guess . |
| 3 | Mr Crangle would spend hours rearranging them into their proper sections only to come back the next day and find them all mixed up again . |
| 4 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 5 | It is however possible for one of their number to come back the next day and give the decision , the findings of fact and the reasons of the court , considered at rather more leisure than sometimes time will permit . |
| 6 | Sharp was very excited , and asked Kimber to come back the next day to play the tunes , while he wrote them down . |
| 7 | In the end it was Mary who had to calm Martin down , reassure him and promise to come back the next day . |
| 8 | He started to work out the next stage . |
| 9 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 10 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 11 | He swivelled round to set up the next track . |
| 12 | as if to demonstrate his terrible seriousness , he orders the people to set out the next day ‘ … for the wilderness by the way to the Reed Sea ’ . |
| 13 | And then you see they when the crafty was by they used to set out the next day , some maybe taken for the West Mainland and some taken for and some were . |
| 14 | Sit with your feet and legs apart — do not over-extend the distance — it defeats the purpose of the exercise and you will find you wo n't be able to walk properly the next day ! |
| 15 | He had called to ask her advice about the small dinner party he intended to give in the next week or so . |
| 16 | It is scientific knowledge that enables an astronomer to predict when the next eclipse of the sun will occur or a physicist to explain why the boiling-point of water is lower than normal at high altitudes . |
| 17 | ‘ To search out the next candidate , I mean . |
| 18 | As long as I ensured that she was in peak physical condition , it was n't too difficult to get her to fly further the next time . |
| 19 | The result was we arrived in Hong Kong a day late , and quite late in the evening , and our journey to China proper was due to start early the next morning . |
| 20 | In marital therapy it is often noticeable that although a couple are asking for help to sort out their problem , so that they may have the closeness and intimacy for which they yearn , fear overcomes hope , and whenever things start to improve one of them can be relied upon to start up the next quarrel . |
| 21 | Well , undergraduates getting very , very drunk and , you know , throwing up and leaving pools of vomit around for staff to clear up the next day erm , you know , one might say well are the college staff the victim of that . |
| 22 | We do n't want to mess up the next meeting , now do we ? ’ |
| 23 | I hope Aldus manage to find a way to speed up the next version so that we can all enjoy IntelliDraw , irrespective of class of machine . |
| 24 | And told to turn up the next morning , waited another four hours , finally a patient who 'd had an operation for a serious gall bladder operation two days before hand was kicked out of his bed and sent home so that she would be put in the bed , given the operation ! |
| 25 | Ask the customer to call back the next day , when the contents of the till will have been checked . |
| 26 | Almost all the ladies silently decided to go downtown the next morning and buy a copy of The Cheaper Sex . |
| 27 | ‘ We wo n't be in a hurry to get away the next time , will we ? |
| 28 | Bad weather during the third round had left him with three holes to complete early the next morning . |
| 29 | We sometimes worked almost till midnight , with a sub-editor , to get out the next edition of the paper . |
| 30 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |