Example sentences of "n't [vb infin] [prep] the next " in BNC.
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1 | I ca n't wait for the next get-together , and the thought of pulling on that old white shirt again excites me . |
2 | Like everyone else who has attended the Cathay Pacific Hongkong Bank Sevens , I ca n't wait for the next one . |
3 | I ca n't wait for the next revelations . |
4 | We ca n't wait until the next election . ’ |
5 | Still , ca n't wait till the next game . |
6 | I did n't know till the next we er till the weekend and he made me know as I 'd swore . |
7 | But what of the notion that pubs wo n't survive into the next century ? |
8 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
9 | He could n't see round the next bend , he must record , tapes were periscopes , his only chance , and the slow ink stolen and the wheels turning , and everything remembered , everything proved , he was whispering now , ‘ Why five , ’ he was whispering , ‘ is n't one enough ? ’ and a voice came back , a woman 's , Sharon 's , ‘ One what ? ’ |
10 | In fact they did n't stop until the next step in Patel emigration — their expulsion from East Africa . |
11 | she 's here telling me how they sent over and she said oh do n't call for the next two week because we 're going to Italy |
12 | Just how wicked she did n't realise until the next weekend , when she was on nights covering the regular night sister who was on holiday . |
13 | the turn of the leaf did n't go into the next quarter . |
14 | No , it wo n't go into the next century , but it will , it would of done back |
15 | He did n't come till the next day , he had so many calls , and all the same — sick children . |
16 | And although it is much better now than it was on Thursday morning , I know I ca n't train for the next three days . |