Example sentences of "we [verb] the next [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days , more and more people are asking me , ‘ Mr Punch , how can we survive the next few years ? ’ |
| 2 | On New Year 's Eve we skip the next four years and go straight into 1977 . |
| 3 | At TODAY , we hope the next few days will bring you peace and joy . |
| 4 | We owe the next great advance in the appreciation of precious stones to the Hellenistic and Roman heirs of Alexander 's conquests which served to promote new dynasties and enhance trade between the Mediterranean and India . |
| 5 | What happens now do we try the next all play ? |
| 6 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 7 | He was defiant yesterday , saying : ‘ If we win the next three matches we could still go through and we will have a much stronger side . |
| 8 | If we win the next 3 then we 'll have 19 off of 10 . |
| 9 | Characteristically , we won the next two Tests . |
| 10 | I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | At thirteen we were branded either jail-bait or ‘ Still , I expect she 's clever with her hands ’ — and we spend the next thirty years living up to it or living it down . |
| 12 | No one can predict what will make news as we enter the next ten years of Central , but as long as the talent survives , we 're promised entertainment well worth watching . |