Example sentences of "his [noun sg] for the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | well you know , John Smith laid out his budget for the next , study for the , to cover the next two years and there , I mean there 's no intention to , to change it in the foreseeable future , I mean they 've laid it out for two years so that the basic rate stays the same , that the personal allowances are being increased so that this will take a lot of lower paid people out of tax and that coupled with the child benefit will make everybody up to about twenty two thousand a year better off , and then from there they 'll be a , a , a range of people who to it wo n't make much difference |
| 2 | If the answer was ‘ stoppin' ‘ , the labourer would be given an extra shilling to fasten his contract for the next year , but he still had the rest of the day off to attend the merrymaking at the Hirings . |
| 3 | Clearly he was saving his powder for the next negotiating battle in the GATT talks . |
| 4 | Richmond said McHale was already planning his side for the next campaign . |
| 5 | For more than half an hour Adam took Billie through his plan for the next stage of their self-initiated assignment . |
| 6 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 7 | The child is receiving his direct physical care from a carefully selected woman who will be his nurse-cum-mother for the next few years . |
| 8 | At Sussex University , he met Gail Rebuck , who would figure largely in his life for the next twenty years . |
| 9 | They all sat around , reminding each other of things they all remembered , each waiting his cue for the next reminiscence to be slotted in . |
| 10 | Even if he survived the present crisis with its unusually heavy demands on resources , there were still a few weeks to go before he received his allocation for the next year . |
| 11 | He spent the interval just sitting in his dressing room , gathering his strength for the next act . |
| 12 | When the couple had gone upstairs to bed , Mr Stephens packed his bag for the next day 's outing , bolted the doors firmly — for many of the men stayed in Cockermouth drinking for three or four days and would roam the streets at night looking for somewhere to sleep — and then , as if to atone for those first designs he had on Emily , he picked out Silas Marner from his bookshelf and wrapped it up as a present for her . |